Using telecommunication as an example, it is argued that the electronics industry badly needs a change in attitude towards reliability thinking. The role of thermal design and reliability qualification is discussed in context to current industrial needs for short design cycles and rapid implementation of new technologies. Current and future practices are discussed in the context of newly-emergi...

We describe a system that can separate and recognize the simultaneous speech of two speakers from a single channel recording and compare the performance of the system to that of human subjects. The system, which we call Iroquois, uses models of dynamics to achieve performance near that of human listeners. However the system exhibits a pattern of performance across conditions that is different f...

The embryonics project proposes a family of cellular architectures with reconfiguration properties inspired by the ontogenesis of multicellular organisms. This paper proposes reliability models for the MICTREE embryonic architecture. The models are used to analyse the reliability of MICTREE arrays with different combinations of spare cells. The methodology followed to attain the models can be u...

This article introduces the application of Generalizability Theory to assessing the reliability of measurements. Generalizability Theory can be used to assess reliability in the presence of multiple sources of error and also can be applied to assess reliability in the presence of different types of sources of error. In particular, the application of Generalizability Theory to measurements invol...