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ach month Circuit Cellar delivers need-to-know technical information to embedded design engineers, programmers, academics, and intellectuals interested in computer applications. Its mission is to help readers become well-rounded, multidisciplinary technicians who can confidently bring innovative, cutting-edge engineering ideas to bear on any number of relevant tasks, problems, and technologies—particularly at a time when single-skill “specialists” are rapidly losing relevance. Who are these readers? Only engineers and programmers, right? Wrong. Let me explain why. Most people think there are two main courses of study: liberal studies (e.g., literature, history, music, etc.) and professional studies (e.g., engineering, business, etc). A graduate of the former is, at best, characterized as an urbane scholar; at worst, he or she is considered a “Jack of all trades, master of none” (e.g., the English major). On the other hand, the “professional studies” graduate (e.g., the Engineering major) is, at best, thought of as a focused intellectual with money-making potential. At worst, he or she is ridiculed as a myopic drone with few skills or interests outside his or her technical specialty. Well, Circuit Cellar is challenging the conventional notions of what it means to be educated in 2010. Each month, we reach readers with diverse back