An Interview with Dr. Kent Lundberg - Luculent Linear Legacy

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Welcome, Dr Kent Lundberg!

• Kent has been a lecturer at MIT and now teaches at Olin College.
• He also keeps a great blog called "Reading Jim Williams". Kent personally knew Jim through Jim Roberge
• Kent also has a bibliography of all of Jim's publications, which were very numerous.
• As fans of JW's will know, some of his app notes were epic. AN47 clocked in at 130 pages.
• Kent has had one student in particular he remembers and has seen all over the place, including the cover of Wired: Limor Fried (AKA Ladyada) of Adafruit Industries.
• In his control systems classes, he doesn't use network analyzers but uses Dynamic Signal Analyzers like the HP3562A.
• Dave says "Bow-duh", Chris and Kent say "Bow-dee", Bode's family (but not him), say "Bow-dah". Dave has been to Bodie, California.
• Kent is a fan of the Severed Heads, a long time Aussie band that did a lot of experimentations with synths.
• Kent also has a bunch of synths of his own, including Moog and Dave Smith synths.
• When he's not teaching, Kent consults for industry for analog. His company is called Keeling Flight Hardware, Ltd. "Flight Hardware" also refers to hardware that is ready off the shelf.
• He also works at Lincoln Labs and has worked indirectly with Dr. Greg Charvat, who was a guest on show 115.
• When he's not teaching or consulting, he also collects and repairs scopes, thanks to JW's inspiration: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6ODi7qSpYg
• Kent has a 511, a 556 and a 7104. Great hardware! He also has one digital scope from the older era: 7854
• Kent was the historian and editor for the IEEE Control Systems magazine and did a feature about analog computing.
• Beyond all this, he's also an avid book collector and has hard-to-find books from the Rad Lab and the Manhattan Project (the ones that are allowed to be collected).
• He's now developing a new class along with students to teach EE Prototyping. We can't wait to see how that turns out!