Yesterday I participated in an interesting experiment …. EETimes’ Virtual conference on Multicore. It was an interesting chance to catch up with the latest attempts at running a “conference” online. I recall attending and participating in a couple of these early in the decade – I gave a talk (a bit of a disaster if [...]
This year, I thought that I might not make it to the 2009 Design Automation Conference, even though it is back in San Francisco, my back yard, so to speak. This is because during the previous two weeks I will be on a busman’s holiday at a summer school, teaching at ACACES 2009, and giving [...]
Last night I saw a rerun of the movie Sneakers, from 1992, with Robert Redford, Sidney Poitier, Ben Kingsley and several other well-known actors. It reminded me that Hollywood is amusing whenever it uses advanced technology as an incidental device, but it is even more amusing when the movie’s main focus is technology developers. Almost [...]