Television is and has been one of the fastest moving areas in engineering. It is one of the most concrete examples of scientific progress applied to everyday use and is appreciated by billions worldwide. Even though some might be spending less time in front of their television sets and more in front of their computer screens, the fact remains that television is one of the largest modern communications media with great influence on our lives.

On May 31st, Norman Augustine received an honorary degree from McGill's Faculty of Engineering. We interviewed him before his commencement speech and asked about NASA, space exploration, and engineering in general.

A metal is an arrayed archipelago of protons in a sea of electrons, extending in three dimensions.

The ST iNEMO Platform Design Contest was conducted by ST Microelectronics and Digikey, and was open to all engineering students from the Americas. The purpose of the competition was to devise an innovative and appealing application to showcase the capabilities of the ST iNEMO kit. It was also important to integrate this kit with extension boards, dedicated firmware, and a graphical user interface.

Ever wondered why we can predict events in the solar system pretty accurately, why tides are easier to predict, why Halley could accurately anticipate the return of a comet, and yet the weather four days from now is uncertain? This article hopes to provide some insight by exploring the basics of chaos.

On July 25, we hosted our first ever Technophilic Conference on communicating research. We invited guest speakers Dr. Michael Rabbat, Dr. Joe Schwarcz and Dr. David Secko for an informative and entertaining trio of talks that covered how to best communicate scientific research to scientists and to the general public.

Victoria Kaspi is the Lorne Trottier Chair in Astrophysics, the Canada Research Chair in Observational Astrophysics and Professor of Physics at McGill University. Last summer, she gave a talk on neutron stars at the 153rd meeting of the James McGill Society. We caught up with her afterwards to discuss “the cosmic gift of neutron stars”.

The Reboot McGill program is a co-operative effort between students and the McGill University administration to collect surplus McGill computers and peripherals, refurbish that equipment if possible, redeploy the equipment on campus where appropriate, donate any unwanted usable equipment and lastly arrange for the proper disposal of all unusable equipment and scrap.

Exactly one year ago, Samsung unleashed on the world a phone that would reshape not only the Android landscape but the smartphone market as a whole. The Samsung Galaxy S was a screaming success carrying Samsung to a great end to 2010 and into a whole lot of momentum for 2011.

It was July 27 when I landed in San Francisco, not as a tourist but as a woman in computer engineering. As finalist of the Anita Borg Scholarship, I found myself at the Googleplex for a retreat in the gorgeous city of Mountain View. For three day, I visited the Google campus, went sightseeing and attended talks by Googlers.

The book starts off with an introduction which describes one of the author’s personal experiences—He lined up for nearly an hour to check in at Aria hotel, one of the trendiest hotels in the city. Hehad arrived after a 6-hour flight from New York and the last thing he wantedwas to waste another hour waiting in line, so he pulled out his BlackBerry andtweeted: ‘No Vegas hotel could be worth this long wait. Over and hour to check inat the Aria :(’ Aria didn’t tweet back but Rio Hotel, a competitor, did.

This year’s International Startup Festival took place in Montreal’s charming Old Port from July 13 to 15.