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Paul Whytock talks with Mouser about the strategies affecting Mouser and how they do business.

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Paul Whytock talks with Future Technology Devices International (FTDI Chip) about the Single Channel Hi-Speed USB to Multipurpose UART/FIFO IC.

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Paul Whytock talks with Microsoft Windows Embedded about Windows Embedded Compact, the next generation of Windows Embedded.

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Paul Whytock talks with Microchip about the new PIC18F66K80 high performance 8-bit microcontroller.

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Paul Whytock talks with Tektronix about the MSO/DPO5000 Mixed Signal Oscilloscope Series.

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Paul Whytock talks with Silicon Labs about the IMST iM871A Wireless M-Bus Module from IMST for Smart Metering.

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Paul Whytock talks with IDT about the developments within IDT including communications, computing and the consumer.

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Returning to his freshman physics classroom after half a century, Kent Kresa still feels passionate about MIT: “It’s a place I love; I feel good when I come back, and it’s been very much a part of my life for the past 50 years.” In his talk, Kresa describes how an MIT education helped shape his professional path, leading to a topflight career in the aviation and defense industry.

Kresa came to MIT “in love with airplanes,” but had no sense where he’d end up. Fascinated by fluid dynamics, he found student work at Boeing in the wind tunnel group. After witnessing “huge open rooms that had acres of engineers…all grinding away on numbers,” he left Boeing with “serious questions about his future career” in aeronautics engineering. He was so soured that he contemplated leaving MIT for a business degree at Harvard.

MIT professors persuaded him that the engineering world was about to change dramatically, and Kresa decided to stick it out. This decision paid off, for Kresa soon found opportunities that were both exciting and cutting edge. He got an early taste of digital computing at a firm

Don’t expect to glean any market tips or trading secrets from James Simons, who steadfastly refuses to disclose the method behind his remarkable record in investing. Instead, listen to this mathematician, hedge fund manager and philanthropist sum up a remarkably varied and rich career, and offer some “guiding principles” distilled along the way.

Simons drew a bead on studying math at MIT from an early age, which some acquaintances found surprising. As a 14-year-old, he was demoted in a temporary job from stockroom worker to floor-sweeper, because he “couldn’t remember where in hell everything went.” This switch suited him fine, since he had “lots of time to think.” When he told his employers he hoped to attend MIT, “they thought it was the funniest thing.” Ultimately, Simons had no choice about it: After Wesleyan recruited, then rejected him, there was only MIT. “I was destined for this place,” he says.

The idea of a math career was “clinched” for Simons after a typical late night of poker and sandwiches with MIT classmates. At 1 a.m. in a Brookline restaurant, Simons saw MIT math legends Isadore Singer and

Kevin Kitagawa from MIPS Technologies showcases the newest mobile phones, tablets, PCs and TVs based on MIPS processor cores and architecture at CES 2011.

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