Taken for Granted

I had the great privilege on Friday evening of attending an informal reception hosted by Alain Labat, CEO of VaST, in honour of Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli and his recent receipt of the 2009 IEEE/Royal Society of Edinburgh Wolfson James Clerk Maxwell award.

Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

During the reception I recalled that I first met Alberto 17 years ago, when a group of us from Nortel in Ottawa visited Cadence in San Jose to talk about partnership.   Since then I have had the opportunity to work with him on and off on a number of things, especially while I was at Cadence.

The reception was attended by several of Alberto’s former students, now spread around many places, and colleagues from various times over the past many years.    Alberto said very generous words about all the students and colleagues who were there.  It was a very nice event, and many thanks to Alain Labat for hosting it, and of course, congratulations to Alberto for his recent award and his long, influential, and continuing career.