/sci/ - Science & Math

>>9743881
Any one of them! It doesn't matter what you specialize in, all fields of EE have a bright future ahead of them no matter the area!

Honest answer: None of them. Traditional EE is pretty much a dead field right now. All the professors in my department who used to work on things like signal processing, communications, control theory, have literally all moved on to do machine learning or AI. Some of the semiconductors and antenna people have retired or are going to retire soon, because they have literally 0 incoming graduate students.

>>9006597

I actually think that chapters 4 and 5 are pretty damn insightful and every bit as necessary as the first three. The recent rewrites of SICP, namely Composing Programs and HtDP, already skip out chapter 5 since it's essentially hardware at that point, but I think it's a mistake since chapter 5 introduces registers machines and the datapath and control abstractions, which is pretty much at the heart of computer architecture and low level programming in general.

It completes the abstract implementation of Scheme presented in chapter 4 by grounding it in real hardware. This will perhaps drive the point home to students that hardware processors are basically executing a fixed hard-programmed cycle of instructions (finite state machine), like the fetch-decode-execute-store cycle, or in Lisp's case, the REPL loop. It also somewhat introduces them to the theory of computation since it talks about stack machines, register machines, and Turing machines as abstract models of computation. Finally, it bridges the gap between interpreted programs and compiled programs since it discusses a compiler for Scheme, and to top it off, also talks about garbage collection in memory.

And in order to do all that, the authors literally created a pseudo-assembly language to model the control unit behavior, and a virtual hardware datapath including memory and registers, ALL IN SCHEME, which is being executed by another Scheme interpreter...

It's recursion to the max, and the level of mindfuck for a virgin mind is just too good to leave out.

What are the prospects for an EE focusing on solid state physics / devices / photonics?

Asking because my school has a fab and I think those are the only areas we're good at.

>>8384455

How do the dot product and the cross product resemble (or differ from) the ordinary product of two numbers?