While my wife and I travel about four months a year, I tend not to write about our trips (she does that on her blog, http://www.eatdrinkfly.com), but our recent trip to Budapest surprised me. Having traveled extensively worldwide for almost 60 years and being a history student, I pride myself on my knowledge of history … Continue reading
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The Flight of a Wild Duck was published a year ago
My memoir, The Flight of a Wild Duck, was published a year ago. It took me three years to write; a year of research, a year of drafting, and a year of editing. While it was a lot of work, I found the experience rewarding. I learned a lot about the history I had lived … Continue reading
Joe Kamiya; My Most Impactful Mentor Died
I have had five mentors throughout my career and am grateful for their efforts. After learning of their deaths, I have written about Mort Ruderman and Ken Olsen. Unfortunately, I have just learned that Joe Kamiya, the most impactful of all my mentors, died last year. Joe Kamiya made me a scientist. Paul Hugenholtz made … Continue reading
Time Travel via the London Underground
Today I took a trip on a “time machine” via the London underground. I went back to 1965 when I first arrived in London at the age of 20. My grand uncle Joe Harris and his wife Alice, invited me to visit them. At that time, I was living in Paris. Living is not really … Continue reading
My talk to 150 high school students (mixed Jews and Arabs)
On Sunday, I had an opportunity to talk to about 150 students aged 16 and 17. I was the opening speaker for the summer program by a remarkable organization called MEET. They work with teens in what they call “The Region,” which is really Israel and the West Bank. Half of the students are Jews … Continue reading
Why the USA’s (and other countries’ ) approach to vaccine development is wrong
Sometime around October, the FDA is likely to authorize a new version of the Covid vaccination by Pfizer and Moderna and maybe others. This version was developed to be more effective against the Omicron version of Covid. But we have long since moved on from that Omicron. The issue is the FDA wants both … Continue reading
Living longer better
I have not given this blog much attention since I started writing my book, The Flight of a Wild Duck, four years ago. It was published in September of 2021. I have a lot more that I want to write, but frankly, the effort of writing a 340-page book dampened my enthusiasm for writing. Now … Continue reading
Intel’s strategy for the future is to recreate the past
Intel’s strategy for the future is to go back to 2005. It was then that Paul Otellini, the CEO of Intel, turned down the opportunity to be the manufacturer of the chip that would be at the heart of the iPhone. The result was that Apple went to Taiwan Semiconductor to produce that chip. In … Continue reading
A significant chapter, or better said, a volume of my life, is over
When I turned 50 in 1995, I began to think about how my life would evolve. I realized that I wanted to have a home in the wine country of Sonoma, California. During this period, I had often been traveling to Italy. I fell in love with Tuscany but knew that it did not make … Continue reading
My interview on the history of residential broadband
As many of you will know, I played a leadership role in creating residential broadband. My activities span the period of 1992 to 1999. Not only was I involved in the development of cable modems and DSL modems, but I used Intel’s might to pull together all the elements required to create what became a … Continue reading
Two Thirds Done 