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How to Understand Public Key Cryptography Without Formulas

Public key cryptography is a technology used for information security. It can be utilized to implement authorization schemes to protect access to data, guarantee data or code provenance and integrity, or be part of more complex key establishment algo…

  • What's Next for Project Playtime?

    What's Next for Project Playtime?

    ProjectPlaytime
    •  Analog Employees 
    The timeline for ADI’s Project Playtime is ending, but the mission, relationships, and project development will continue. What’s next for the teams spotlighted in previous Engineering Mind blog posts? User Feedback, Please! A common theme...
  • Boston's Back Bay: The Original Big Dig

    Boston's Back Bay: The Original Big Dig

    davidkruh
      It was a project so big, it still boggles the mind. Two Boston entrepreneurs would stretch the limits of the era’s technology when, in the mid-1800s, they filled in 568 acres of fetid swampland, enabling its transformation into one of America&r...
    • Is the World's Fair Dead?

      Is the World's Fair Dead?

      davidkruh
        It was 1900 when Henry Adams, historian and scion of a family which produced two American presidents, walked the Gallery of Machines at Paris' Great Exposition and stopped to brood before a working exhibit of a dynamo. In his landmark "Educa...
      • Empowering Children in Cork: Project Playtime

        Empowering Children in Cork: Project Playtime

        lallison
        •  Analog Employees 
        The ADI office in Cork counts approximately 80-90 people, counting for a very small percentage of the total number of ADI employees around the globe. But small numbers don’t mean small efforts! And ever since its launch, Project Playtime sounde...
      • Project Playtime is Building Independence in Limerick

        Project Playtime is Building Independence in Limerick

        ProjectPlaytime
        •  Analog Employees 
        When you enter a dark room, you simply flick a switch to turn on the light. If you dislike the current song on your playlist you skip to the next one with a light touch. We take these basic actions for granted every day but for some individuals ...
      • The Road to Nowhere

        The Road to Nowhere

        davidkruh
          Every workday over 250,000 vehicles jam Route 128 here in Eastern Massachusetts. That is way beyond its designed capacity, with the resulting traffic jams raising the tempers of commuters along with the temperatures of their engines. To accommodate g...
        • Let Me Be Your Eyes

          Let Me Be Your Eyes

          ProjectPlaytime
          •  Analog Employees 
          Do you ever feel helpless when the power goes out and darkness surrounds you? Imagine living your life in total darkness every day - this is what it is like in the daily life of a blind person. Simple tasks become more challenging but they can b...
        • The Slave Who Saved a City

          The Slave Who Saved a City

          davidkruh
            His name was Onesimus. At least, that was the name by which he became known to the people of Boston. We don’t know the name his parents gave him because when he was just eleven years old he was taken by force from his West African village and p...
          • FIRST Robotics Wrap Up: Billerica Bionics

            FIRST Robotics Wrap Up: Billerica Bionics

            JValeriani
            •  Analog Employees 
            The FIRST competition has come to an end, to conclude our blog series we want to congratulate the teams on their successes. We are incredibly proud of all the teams, especially the teams that we were able to sponsor this past year. We cannot wait to ...