EEs, profession will be part of a decade of change

In another sweeping change there is a renewed, grass-roots interest in research in primary engineering areas. Research is what enables fundamental gains in electronics. While many people believe the Internet is a new mode of communication, in fact it is 20-year-old technology originally fundedby the U.S. government. A savvy researcher in the early 1990s figured out a clever way to locate resources along the Internet highway to explode this technology and accelerate adoption.