IEEE Reflections Columns by Robert Lucky

 These essays were originally published in IEEE Spectrum Magazine. Click on any title you'd like to read.

Mar 2008 Engineers and the Flat Earth
Jan 2008 Technical Publications and the Internet
Nov 2007 The Billion Amateurs
Sept 2007 Math
July 2007 Computer Rot
May 2007 Who are You?
Mar 2007 Are you Aware?
Jan 2007 Great Thoughts
Nov 2006 Impossible Tradeoffs
Sept 2006 Unsystematic Engineering
July 2006 Famous People
May 2006 Digital Photographs
Mar 2006 Remote Control
Jan 2006 Tragedy of the Commons
Nov 2005 My New Laptop
Sept 2005 Lab for Sale
July 2005 The Dream
May 2005 Life Bits
Mar 2005 Rules
Jan 2005 Wordsmithing
Nov 2004 Does Google Like Me?
Sept 2004 Expressiveness for Engineers
July 2004 Retrospective Organization
May 2004 Where is the Vision for Telecom?
Mar 2004 The Impermanence of Knowledge
Jan 2004 Goodbye to Email
Nov 2003 Engineering Appearance
Sept 2003 "Industrial Research" -- An Oxymoron?
July 2003 Order and Disorder
May 2003 What Were we Thinking?
Mar 2003 Down into Darkness or up into Fog
Jan 2003 Flames from the Net
Nov 2002 A Paramecium, a Fish, and a Rat
Sept 2002 The Future of Engineering
July 2002 What do you do at Work?
May 2002 Showing Up
Mar 2002 Who runs the Internet?
Jan 2002 Cannot Connect
Nov 2001 The Telecom Dark Ages
Sept 2001 The Precious Radio Spectrum
July 2001 Fact or Fiction?
May 2001 When Giants Walked the Earth
Mar 2001 2001: Technology and the Movie
Jan 2001 Communications Triage
Nov 2000 Banners for Engineers
Sept 2000 Monkey Business
July 2000 Music on Hold
May 2000 Special Places
Mar 2000 Omniscience
Jan 2000 Greatest Engineering Accomplishments
Nov 1999 Always On?
Sept 1999 Information Addiction
July 1999 Free Software
May 1999 Design for People -- Not!
Mar 1999 Connections
Jan 1999 What is an Office?
Nov 1998 Job Churn
Sept 1998 Moore's Law Redux
July 1998 Clock Speed
May 1998 Electrical Engineering -- A Diminishing Role?
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Nov 1997 When is Dumb Smart?
Sept 1997  
July 1997 Anytime, Anywhere
May 1997 "Fatal Error Number 27"
Mar. 1997 "Blinking Twelve O'Clock"
Jan. 1997 "The Right Stuff"
Nov. 1996 "Honk if You're for Anarchy"
Sept. 1996 "The Glitz Factor"
July 1996 "Bozos on the Bus"
May 1996 "Casualties of Downsizing"
Mar. 1996 "Why Am I Here?"
Jan. 1996 "Have Laptop, Will Travel"
Nov. 1995 "Moore's Dreams"
Sept. 1995 "Being Clicked"
July 1995 "Where did the Web Come From?"
May 1995 "The Crypto Quandary"
March 1995 "Surfing the Net"
January 1995 "The Inbox"
Nov. 1994 "Who Gets the Credit?"
Sept. 1994 "What Happened to Leisure Time?"
July 1994 "Bits are Bits"
May 1994 "The Quest for Information"
March 1994 "Whatever Happened to Numbers?"
Jan. 1994 "The Disappearing Space Crunch"
Nov. 1993 "Technology Isn't the Problem"
Sept 1993 "Chair Power"
July 1993 "Riding the Wave"
May 1993 "The Performance Rating"
May 1992 The Bean Counters