Brick and Mortar Chip Fabrication Martha Allen Kim Chair of the Supervisory Committee: Professor Mark Oskin Computer Science and Engineering While Moore’s Law has advanced the semiconductor and technology industries, it has simultaneously driven up the cost of engineering a chip in a modern silicon process. The result is that fewer and fewer chips are produced in larger and larger volumes, stif...

Despite the attention that strategic change as a topic of research has received, there remain considerable difficulties in conceptualizing the actual sources of strategic change. Strategy workshops represent one obvious and explicit research site since organizations often use such events as a means of effecting or initiating strategic change. This paper examines empirical data from ninety-nine ...

Most models of consumer purchase process that are used in operations focus on purchases from a single channel, typically the offline brick-and-mortar store [3]. However, there has been a proliferation of multiple retail channels, such as online and mobile. This proliferation has created the need for operational decisions to model consumer switching between different channels during the purchase...

This workshop will cover SiGe HBT technologies as well as SiGe enabled mm-wave and THz applications. In fact, nowadays SiGe technologies have passed the 600 GHz barrier in terms of maximum oscillation frequency and the 700 GHz barrier is foreseen to fall in 2015. Intrinsic advantages of SiGe HBTs such as co-integration with CMOS permit to design compact, reliable and cost efficient systems for ...

The goal of this tutorial is to present our original methodology of Full Software Radio system design. The diversity of communication standards implies the use of multi-band and multi-mode radios. That is why Full Software Radio proposes to challenge a new way of integrating RF circuits and systems by tackling the main issue: transceiving concurrently any RF signal within a very wide band of in...

Filters and multiplexers are key building blocks in science, navigation, and earth observation and telecommunication applications. Satellite systems are in constant evolution to answer to new and changing needs in terms of throughput, coverage, flexibility, RF performances ... The following bullet points offer an overview of some of the different approaches to respond to the new system requirem...

We describe two participatory workshops conducted to support design decisions in the making of the audio display for an ambient intelligent game platform. The workshops discussed here explore specific issues of players’ interactions with sound and auditory display design. The workshops helped move our design process forward by specifying the role of narrative and sound ecologies in our design. ...