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Keeping Pace: Interconnect Standards, Racing Rats, and Combatting COBOL Craziness

This week’s Fish Fry podcast is a virtual grab bag of electronic engineering goodness! In our first segment, I investigate how a group of researchers at the University of Richmond taught a group of rats how to drive and why this research could help us better understand neuroplasticity and neuropsychiatric conditions in humans. Next, Mike Walmsley (TE Connectivity) joins me to discuss the importance of interconnect standardization and what the next generation of interconnect technology will look like. Finally, I give an update on the growing need for COBOL programmers and how IBM and the Linux Open Mainframe Project have gotten together to help states navigate this COBOL craziness.

 

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Links for May 1, 2020

Teaching Rats To Drive Tiny Cars Helps Them Relax, Scientists Discover

Enriched environment exposure accelerates rodent driving skills (Whitepaper)

More information about TE Connectivity

IBM and Open Mainframe Project Mobilize to Connect States with COBOL Skills

Calling all COBOL Programmers Forum

COBOL Technical Forum

Open Source COBOL Training

 

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