Smithsonian Magazine

The Supermarket Scanner Changed the Way We Buy Groceries Forever

A Spectra Physics Model A supermarket scanner—one of the first ten ever produced. A laser within the unit projects a beam onto a mirror that redirects it through the glass plate on the top. Cade ...
IEEE

2D DOA Estimation for Multiple Parallel Sparse Linear Arrays via Recursive Roots Finding

Abstract: Multiple parallel sparse linear arrays (MPSLAs) can be strategically deployed in two-dimensional (2D) or three-dimensional (3D) space, offering a unique advantage by enabling easy conformal ...
Military Times

‘Flashpoint Campaigns: Cold War’ is the ultimate OODA Loop wargame

Fifty years ago, a U.S. Air Force colonel named John Boyd offered a profound insight into why battles are won or lost. His famous Observe, Orient, Decide, Act — or OODA — Loop described the mental ...
The Tab

Everyone’s freaking out over a new Apple product called Loop, but is it real?!

Twitter has been flooded with photos of a new Apple product called Loop this week that says it’s retailing for $149, and everyone’s freaking out because it looks so great. The product is a new kind of ...
IEEE

Sparsity-Based Adaptive Beamforming for Coherent Signals With Polarized Sensor Arrays

Abstract: A sparsity-based adaptive beamforming (ABF) method is introduced to effectively process coherent signals with polarized sensor arrays (PSA). This method exploits the spatial sparsity of ...