September 18, 2012, MIT-Stanford Venture Lab, Stanford, CA—A panel of game experts discussed the ramifications and requirements for making work into games. Margaret Wallace moderated the panel. Panel members included Courtney Guertin, CTO from Kiip, Rajat Paharia, chief product officer from Bunchball, Amy Jo Kim, CEO from Shufflebrain, Joshua Williams, senior software design engineer from…
April 26, 2011, Mentor U2U, Santa Clara,CA—Wally Rhines described the dynamics of the design automation industry at the Mentor users’ group meeting. The EDA industry has fairly unique characteristics as a marketplace that seem to defy description and analysis. Mentor is growing and approaching $1B in total revenues. Some ask if EDA tracks industries like…
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…