News & Commentary June 7, 2016 • by Quandary Peak Research Design Challenges in Sub-11nm Process Technologies As VLSI devices shrink to atomic scales, design and analysis become increasingly challenging. Dr. Shahin Nazarian, an expert at Quandary Peak Research and a faculty member in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Southern California, has been conducting research on the design and analysis of high speed, energy efficient circuits… Read More April 7, 2016 • by Quandary Peak Research Nazarian Provides Deposition Testimony in BIOS Cases Quandary Peak Research expert Dr. Shahin Nazarian was deposed in several IPR cases on March 15, March 16, April 4 and April 6, 2016. He was the lead testifying expert witness on six contested patents. Nazarian was asked to opine on the invalidity of US patents 6,519,659, 6,487,656, 6,633,976, 6,373,498, 6,401,202, and… Read More December 14, 2015 • by Jason Frankovitz Quandary Peak Advises Canadian FIRST LEGO League Robotics team When software expert Jason Frankovitz got an email with the subject line “Robotics”, he assumed it was a client needing help with a technology project. But this client wasn’t some large computer company or high-powered law firm; it was a group of budding engineers from Sarnia, Ontario. The Canadian 5th, 6th, and… Read More November 20, 2015 • by Quandary Peak Research Award Winning Research Conducted by Quandary Peak Experts Two Quandary Peak experts and their teams presented their latest research at the twenty-sixth International Symposium on Software Reliability and Engineering, one of the most accredited IEEE events. Dr. Mahdi Eslamimehr with his teammate from MIT won the ISSRE 2016 Best Paper award for “AtomChase: Directed Search Towards Atomicity Violations”, the result… Read More September 29, 2015 • by Mahdi Eslamimehr Could Better Testing Have Prevented Toyota’s Unintended Acceleration Problem? When human health and safety depends on software, correct system operation is the most important concern. Unfortunately, a lack of proper testing and verification in such systems allows program defects to remain undetected and later turn into hazardous failures. Here are a few examples from a long history of failing programs that… Read More September 22, 2015 • by Quandary Peak Research Relying on Sole Expert Witness, Samsung Wins Patent Case…Twice Samsung prevailed in the retrial of a patent infringement case earlier this month as the jury found the asserted patents to be valid but not infringed. Quandary Peak software expert Dr. Nenad Medvidovic was called as an expert witness by Samsung in both the original trial, which took place in July, and… Read More July 24, 2015 • by Quandary Peak Research Technical Analysis Contributes to Unexpected Verdict in FilmOn Case Video streaming company FilmOn won a surprising victory in federal District Court this month in a case in which Dr. Sigurd Meldal, a computer scientist at Quandary Peak Research, provided expert witness testimony related to FilmOn’s video streaming servers. Other Quandary Peak consultants were also retained through FilmOn’s counsel, Baker Marquart LLP,… Read More February 3, 2015 • by Nupul Kukreja 1 Comment Measuring Software Maintainability Software maintenance costs result from modifying your application to either support new use cases or update existing ones, along with the continual bug fixing after deployment. As much as 70-80% of the Total Ownership Cost (TCO) of the software can be attributed to maintenance costs alone! Software maintenance activities can be classified… Read More November 4, 2014 • by Quandary Peak Research Jurors Said Quandary Peak Expert Was Convincing A Quandary Peak expert was cited by jurors as credible and convincing on the stand, leading to a positive outcome for the firm’s client. Jason Frankovitz testified in San Diego Superior Court in the matter of Rimma Breeze v. The Evans School, Inc. Mr. Frankovitz, an expert in Web and Internet technologies,… Read More September 25, 2014 • by Quandary Peak Research Quandary Peak Expert Testifies on Web and Search Engine Technology One of Quandary Peak’s experts in web, Internet, and search engine technology recently provided courtroom testimony in a contempt hearing, Golden Best Plumbing, Inc. v. Touni Baghdasarian and Happy Rooter. The Internet expert, Jason Frankovitz, opined on whether the plaintiff’s trade name was being used to market services on the defendant’s Web… Read More « Previous 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Next »
