Dave Shaw remembers when the encyclopedia salesman came to his family's rural Cass City home -- in Michigan's thumb -- nearly 35 years ago. Shaw was 9 years old, and had persuaded his parents to get a ...

Thermal and mechanical packaging--the enabling technologies for the physical implementation of electronic systems--are responsible for much of the progress in miniaturization, reliability, and ...

Spotted in a recycling bin a few floors beneath my office at UVic: an overflowing pile of old books. After tripping down four floors, I discovered the bin contained a bunch of volumes of the 1910-1911 ...