I attended the DAC 2009 welcome reception this evening (Sunday) from 17:30 to 19:30, sponsored by Gary Smith EDA and EDAC. Andrew Kahng, General Chair of DAC 2009, gave a brief talk followed by Wally Rhines, CEO of Mentor Graphics and Chairman of EDAC. Andrew mentioned the scholarships offered to attend DAC for the unemployed, [...]
Day 0 (Sunday) of DAC 2009 is starting with the CODES+ISSS 2009 (part of ES Week 2009) programme committee meeting. It is being held in the Moscone Centre in San Francisco as many of the participants are here at DAC. I am serving on one of the sub-committees. It is good to see the spirit [...]
Some random notes from ACACES 2009: Casa Mila or La Pedrera, Barcelona On Wednesday the afternoon lecturers (of which I am one) were relieved of duty so that a number of the students attending could have a poster session highlighting their work. Very interesting. I strolled around the close to 100 posters for a couple [...]
When I arrived at the ACACES 2009 hotel/conference centre on Sunday after a long flight from San Francisco to Barcelona via Newark, and a train from the airport, I was introduced to some of my fellow lecturers. One of them, Professor Bruce Jacob of University of Maryland sounded extremely familiar through my jet-lagged and fogged [...]
I started my busman’s holiday this week teaching a short course as part of ACACES 2009 near Barcelona. Last night I ate dinner with a number of the other teachers, mostly university professors, and found it an interesting contrast to one of my more normal worlds. Many of the other lecturers work in the Computer [...]
Since I started a working holiday yesterday (July 11), I did a long bout of intensive work on improving and adding new features to one of our multiprocessor system models the last couple of weeks in order to assist some new studies into performance on video applications with alternative architectures – and to get it [...]
Just got a note this morning from John Cooley’s mailing list. Thanks to the sponsorship of EDAC, DAC Free Monday is back (see below for instructions on registration from Bob Gardner of EDAC). This is a good move on the part of EDAC and the EDA industry that it represents. Although the fee would not [...]