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.

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

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.

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.

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.

If you're in town next week, make sure to head out to this year's International Startup Festival held in Old Montreal from July 13 to 15.

Arthur C. Clarke once said that "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." For managers though, it's not just about the technology or how sufficiently advanced it is. Neither is it about the "magic" itself. It really is about being aware of what this "magic" can help managers accomplish, and how it can help them transform the way things are done within their organizations.

When I was younger, I was obsessed with forensic science and wanted to be a forensic scientist. The reason for this? Why, CSI of course.

On January 13, we headed to the Marriott Chateau Champlain hotel to attend the 3-day CUSEC conference.

Physically mimicking the brain may soon become a reality! The “missing” factor which makes this true is the memristor: a thus far hidden component in the family of resistors, capacitors and inductors that emerged as a major technological breakthrough at HP labs.

The McGill Lunar Excavator Team is a group of undergraduate engineering students collaborating to construct a fully automated lunar excavator. We are designing and building the excavator to compete in NASA’s 2011 Lunabotics Mining Competition at the Astronaut Hall of Fame Kennedy Space Center, Cape Canaveral, Florida.

As part of the Design Methodologies and Principles course (ECSE 211), students built robots to autonomously navigate a field of concrete bricks, find the scattered balls and “shoot” them in a goal!

Party of Sin is a game that tells the story of 7 characters condemned to Hell, who manage to escape their fiery prison and fight their way through Purgatory and Earth to finally make it to Heaven.