Every Saturday from Memorial Day through Labor Day, visitors to New Jersey’s Atlantic City Boardwalk gather for the fireworks. Pyrotechnician Jolene Destefano is on the beach, sitting with her laptop, ensuring that the show goes off as planned. For more about this article see link below. https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9940508 For the open access PDF link of … [Read more...] about Setting It Off: Destefano gets a charge from her work
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Joyce Weisbecker: The first indie game developer
Joyce Weisbecker was always interested in her father Joseph’s work. What child wouldn’t be? Joseph was the inventor of the Think-a-Dot and other games, a writer, and a magician who loved learning and teaching. But that’s not all. Joseph was also the engineer who led RCA into a new technological era with his 8-bit microprocessor architecture. Throughout the 1970s, he prototyped … [Read more...] about Joyce Weisbecker: The first indie game developer
The Great Animal Orchestra: The sounds of the natural world are krause’s canvas
Visitors to the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts, lie back on low-slung couches and sprawl on the deep pile carpet. The theatrical space they are in is slightly larger than a volleyball court. A screen surrounds the audience on three sides, a 2-m-wide reflecting pool below it. The walls, ceilings, and floor are acoustically treated, and no outside sound or light … [Read more...] about The Great Animal Orchestra: The sounds of the natural world are krause’s canvas