January 23, 2013, NAMM, Anaheim, CA—Joe Lamond talked with Bernie Williams about life after baseball and music. Williams is a former NY Yankee and is currently a jazz guitarist and music education advocate. How did you change from sports to music? Williams responded that he always played music, but you can only focus on being [...]
March 19, 2012, Interdisciplinary Engineering Design Education Conference, Santa Clara, CA—Masoud Nikravesh, CITRIS (Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society) director of computation science and engineering at UC Berkeley presented information on the intersection of computer science and other science fields. This computational science can be a driver for changes to improve [...]
February 29, 2012, RSA Conference, San Francisco—A panel looked at the changing dynamics of hacking and the new drives for these activities. Jeffery Brown from PBS News Hour performed the moderation duties for the panel which included Misha Glenny an author, Eric Strom from the FBI, and Grady Summers from Mandient. Strom lead off with [...]
February 2012, Mt. View CA – At the Microsoft Mt. View offices, the State and Local Government (SLG) Cloud Computing Initiative presented their “beginning of the beginning” step zero plan for the migration of the state IT infrastructure to the cloud. The event, featuring Lt Gov Gavin Newsom, San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed and representative [...]
March 16, 2011, IEDEC, Santa Clara, CA—RK Cho, professor at the Chungbuk National University, Korea described the state of IC design education in Korea. Their goal is to drive students towards design companies, not just Samsung, and grow the electronics industry. The education programs are focused on SoC design, and is supported by the national [...]
March 16, 2011, IEDEC, Santa Clara, CA—Rich Goldman, vp at Synopsys described the challenges of staffing up remote facilities with productive graduates. He also talked about the interventions that Synopsys and the government of Armenia make to the educational systems to address the challenges. One aspect of their efforts is to update the curriculum every [...]
A new conference (International Electronic Design Education Conference) on the topic of eduction for the electronics industry is having it’s first event on Wed March 16 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Santa Clara. The event is organized and co-located with the 12th annual ISQED event. The speakers are both from industry and the university [...]
