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TU805 guest lecture

Slides

• TU805 guest lecture slides

Notes

• Faraday lecture
• The Sleepwalkers - Arthur Koestler
• Standard model
  • Four fundamental forces: EM, gravity, strong, weak
• Faraday's laboratory
• James Clerk Maxwell
• Maxwell's Equations
• Static Cat
  • The EM force is >= 10^36 times stronger than gravity. It...
  • Holds atoms together
  • Allows molecules to form
  • Responsible for nearly all chemical interactions
  • Makes matter solid - repulsion between electron shells
  • EM radiation, including light, radio, etc.
  • Contact forces, friction, etc.
  • Motors, generators
• Information / Energy
• Three Gorges Dam:
  • Yangtze River
  • The world's largest power station - 22,500 MW installed capacity
  • 95+/-20 TWh per year
• Frontier supercomputer
• Control
• Shuttle
• Fintech / Revolut
• Famous EEs:
  • Steve Wozniak co-founded Apple Computer in 1976.
  • Jensen Huang is founder, president and CEO of Nvidia - world's largest company by market capitalization (>$5T in Oct 2025).
  • Lisa Su is president and CEO of AMD (market cap > $200B).
  • Ken Thompson designed and implemented original UNIX. Invented B, precursor to C.
  • Arvind Krishna is the chairman and CEO of IBM.
  • Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and only 4th richest person in the world at $239.4B in Dec 2025.
  • Satya Nadella is chairman and CEO of Microsoft.
  • Larry Page co-founded Google, 2nd richest in world at $269B in Jan 2026.
• Tony Stark / Iron Man
• Gene Cernan:
• Bantval Jayant Baliga:
  • Indian electrical engineer
  • Invented the insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) in early 1980s
  • Cost savings of over $15T
  • World's largest negative carbon footprint
• My story:
  • Lego / ZX Spectrum
  • London Calling
  • NRH
  • NatterBox
  • Wii / iPhone
  • Accelerometer / IMU
  • In Amp
  • BioSlam breadboard / electrodes / ECG signal
  • ECG Lead I
  • EOG
  • Rotext
  • EEG
  • VEPs
  • Neuron structure
  • ANN
  • Future interfaces?