Articles by Patrick Hindle

The exhibitor reception was packed with people (free food and drinks will do that). I saw a lot of friends and many technical attendees enjoying a few drinks and some light appetizers. Everyone was pretty worn out from a busy Tues and late night watching the basketball finals. I think most people will hit a quick dinner and call it an early night but the hard core ones are ready for some other social events. Pat...

I attended the Women in Microwaves reception and met Rashaunda Henderson of UT Dallas (pictured with Christina Nickolas). She was putting together a list of those that attended and will try to keep in touch with everyone. She has a nice idea of putting together a mentoring program for women engineers so I hope it is successful. Of course, a big crowd attended the Microwave Journal event at the Gordon Biersch brewery. The beer was excellent and the company was even better. We had the Celtics/Lakers game on every TV in the place and those of us from the...

The first day of the MTT exhibition was a busy one with all of the major players present with booths on the floor. One booth that stood out was Triquint with a mint condition Chevelle SS painted bright orange with the number 35 on the side (representing three five compound semiconductors I believe). The recently announced the aquisition of WJ Communications to broaden their portfolio. David and I did video interviews with 10 or so companies that will be posted tomorrow linked off of our virtual vendor booths on our Online Show Daily page. We hope they will be...

The Microwave Journal editors, Pat Hindle and David Vye, will be blogging live from the IMS/MTT-S 2008 show floor from June 17-19. Get real time updates on happenings at the show in Atlanta and give us your thoughts and impressions. We are expecting over 10,000 attendees this year. How successful do you think the show will be this year? What technical sessions are you looking forward to attending the most? Pat...

The tall buildings in downtown Atlanta still have a lot of shattered glass from the tornado. Many of the Omni Hotel windows are cracked or boarded up (see photo). I did not get the impression from the news about the tornado that there was this much damage. But the weather is nice and hot with a lively crowd of microwave engineers. The convention center is nice and everything is close together for easy access. We are doing videos interviews in a little while and they will be posted tomorrow linked off our Online Show Daily page where the virtual...