Practical technology, explained with patience.
Professor turns technical change into patient, conversational briefings. Episodes move from AI in engineering classrooms to IPv6, car sensor attacks, keyless-entry flaws, 4K television, and security habits.
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Professor is a steady, instructional technology show centered on networking, telecommunications, security, engineering education, and the way technical systems enter ordinary life. It does not chase novelty for its own sake. The episodes work like guided briefings, taking one subject and walking through the mechanisms, consequences, and practical questions around it. AI in engineering education becomes a discussion about what students still need to know when tools can produce step-by-step solutions quickly. That episode is careful about the tradeoff. Foundational knowledge remains necessary, but interpretation, verification, and judgment move closer to the center of the work. The show’s AI coverage also reaches into grokking, the moment when a model appears to shift from memorization toward a more general grasp of a pattern. It treats that idea as both a research issue and a broader question about learning. Security episodes bring the same clarity to physical systems. A DEF CON discussion on car anti-collision sensors explains spoofing and jamming without assuming the attack has to involve breaking into vehicle software. The keyless-entry episode turns cryptographic weaknesses in cars into a concrete lesson about shared keys, disclosure, and risk. Professor is also comfortable with consumer technology. Pokemon Go is discussed as a game, a social phenomenon, and a security case study. A 4K television episode breaks down pixels, HDMI standards, streaming bandwidth, upconversion, and the need for native 4K content. Education remains a recurring thread, especially in the comparison between engineering technology and engineering degrees, where preparation, math, science, and program choice matter. The IPv6 tutorial material pushes deeper into network training, certification, gateways, address exhaustion, and the operational pressure that arrives when old infrastructure meets new demand. The pacing is conversational and practical. It suits listeners who prefer explanations that stay grounded in examples, not hype.
Made for: Professor is for students, educators, network technicians, IT learners, and curious professionals who want technical subjects explained clearly. It especially suits listeners who like classroom-style context and practical examples.
What sets it apart: The show connects technology topics to teaching, training, and real implementation details. It is less about hot takes than about understanding how systems work, where they break, and what people should learn next.
National Center for Telecommunications Technologies Director Gordon F Snyder Jr and Mid Atlantic Institute for Telecommunications Technologies Director Mike Qaissaunee take a weekly look at the Networking, Information and Communications Technologies and how they affect the world of business, industry and education.
Gordon and Mike make you wonder what your locked car's keyless system actually protects.
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Tesla sensor defenses run into jamming, spoofing, and an ordinary laser.
A car built to spot danger can still be pushed into looking the wrong way. This episode follows DEF CON researchers who jammed the rear sensors of a Tesla Model S until it failed to register a person behind it, then spoofed Autopilot into seeing something that was not there.
A clear, measured look at how shared cryptographic keys could put Volkswagen security at risk.
Lock It and Still Lose It treats everyday car convenience as a security weakness with unusually broad stakes: researchers said the four most common shared cryptographic keys effectively covered 100 million Volkswagens.
A clear tour of Pokemon Go's mechanics, with a useful look at the everyday security questions around the game.
"Pokemon Go" looks at the 2016 mobile game as a hands-on guide with a modest security thread running through it. It walks through getting the free app from the Apple App Store or Google Play, signing in with a Google account or Pokemon Trainer Club account, and learning the…
A practical look at why 4K picture quality depends as much on content, HDMI support, and bandwidth as on the screen itself.
4K television comes across as an upgrade with strings attached. Mike and Gordon make the practical dependencies easy to follow: native 4K material, HDMI 2.0 for steady 60-frame playback, and a reliable 25 Mbps connection for Netflix.
Specialists walking through software's tradeoffs, one system at a time.
Founders and engineers on AI coding agents like Claude Code, and supply chain security.
The researchers used off-the-shelf lasers and cheap black foam to blind cameras and hide objects from Tesla sensors.
At the USENIX security conference, researchers from the University of Birmingham and a German engineering firm discussed vulnerabilities in car keyless entry systems.
Professor's "Intro To Pokemon Go" frames Pokemon Go as a mobile game that mixes GPS, camera overlays, Pokeballs, Pokestops, and team gyms.
Gordon defines 4K as Ultra High Definition at 3840 by 2160, or about four times the pixels of 1080p.
Mike and Gordon distinguish associate-level engineering technology, which can lead to technician jobs, from four-year engineering degrees that prepare entry-level engineers.
Verizon and AT&T control about three quarters of low-band spectrum, the hosts say, making the FCC's 2016 auction particularly consequential for T-Mobile's coverage.
In April 2016, Professor examines ransomware after US CERT issued alert TA16-091A on March 31.
Professor presents Sam Bowne's hands-on IPv6 tutorial around IPv4 exhaustion, including the projected depletion of IANA's remaining address pool and the limits of 32-bit addressing.
The hosts discuss emerging broadband and wireless technologies, prompted by a listener's email about AT&T coverage issues in Phoenix.
Karl Kopp discusses using virtual worlds and technology for learning, breaking down traditional classroom walls.
Hosts discuss social media applications like blogging, Twitter, Facebook, and LinkedIn in an interview about their impact.
A compilation of interviews discussing how to capture and share video to enhance teaching and learning in higher education.