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Don Alpert
www.camelback-comparch.com
Don Alpert is manager and principal consultant of Camelback
Computer Architecture, LLC, which offers computer architecture
consulting services to assess technology, develop products,
and protect intellectual property.
Dr. Alpert has over 20 years leadership experience at
Intel, National Semiconductor, and Zilog. He was a principal
architect of the Pentium Processor. Dr. Alpert has a Ph.D.,
M.S. and B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford
and MIT. He was the past chair of IEEE Technical Committee
on Microprocessors and Microcomputers. He taught graduate-level
classes in computer architecture at Stanford, Tel Aviv,
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Richard Belgard
http://members.aol.com/richb89600
Rich Belgard has been active in the computer industry
for more than 28 years. Over these years, he designed
and managed the development of computer architectures
at Burroughs, Data General, Tandem Computers and Rational
Software, including hardware, software and microarchitecture.
He is co-inventor on 18 patents, sole inventor on 4
patents and currently has other pending computer architecture
patents.
Mr. Belgard is the past Chairman and Vice-Chairman of
the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest
Group on Microarchitectures, and past Vice-Chair of
the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
Technical Committee on Microprogramming and Microarchitectures.
Mr. Belgard has participated in intellectual property
lawsuits, including patent, copyright, and trade secret.
He has been involved in many "clean-room" development
projects. He has written articles and presented lectures
on the subject of reverse engineering, including how
to perform it and how to prevent it.
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Jeff Deutsch
www.deutsch.com
Dr. Jeffrey T. Deutsch has over 25 years of experience
in architecture, algorithms, and implementation of highly
complex hardware/software systems. Dr. Deutsch has been
the founder of a number of Silicon Valley startups,
producing a wide range of products, including multiprocessor
servers, cluster computing systems, VLSI design tools,
and special purpose hardware for simulation.
Dr. Deutsch is currently president of Deutsch Research.
Deutsch Research provides consulting in the areas of
multiprocessor hardware and software design/development,
including VLSI multiprocessor architecture, parallelizing
compilers and multiprocessor software development environments,
and algorithms and implementation techniques for multiprocessor
applications software. Deutsch Research also produces
the well known DR SPICE analog and mixed A/D simulation
programs.
Dr. Deutsch holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science from UC Berkeley, and is an alumnus
of Bell Labs, BBN, DEC and HP. Dr. Deutsch has been
a member of the editorial board of Microprocessor
Report since 1992.
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Dave Epstein
www.crosslinkcapital.com
Dave Epstein joined Crosslink Capital in 2001 and is a partner focusing on its core
technology/semiconductor venture investing activities. He has been starting, managing, and helping high tech companies grow for over 25 years. Prior to joining Crosslink, Mr. Epstein served as strategic consultant to Transmeta, CEO of XStream Logic and founding CEO of Raycer Graphics. He was Vice President of Engineering at NexGen and Kendall Square Research after starting his career at Data General, which was chronicled in Tracy Kidder's Soul of a New Machine.
Mr. Epstein serves on the Microprocessor Report editorial board and is named on 13 patents in Computer Architecture and Systems. He holds a BSEE and MSEE from the University of Wisconsin and an MBA from Boston University.
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Michael Flynn
Michael Flynn is Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford. Professor Flynn began his engineering career at IBM as a designer of mainframe computers and while there received his PhD from Purdue University in 1961. He became Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford in 1975 where he set up the Stanford Architecture and Arithmetic group. Some of his best-known work includes the development of the stream outline of computer organization (SIMD, etc.), techniques for the simultaneous execution of multiple instructions and algorithms for high speed arithmetic.
Prof. Flynn received the ACM/IEEE Eckert-Mauchley Award and the Harry Goode Memorial Award for his contributions to computer architecture. He was awarded an honorary DSc from the University of Dublin and is a fellow of both the IEEE and ACM.
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Don Gaubatz
Phone:
978.853.9934
Dr. Donald Gaubatz
consults internationally for large computer, networking,
and semiconductor companies and for start-ups. He advises
independent research labs on strategy, funding, technology
transfer, and spin-outs. He is on the Advisory Board of
the NSF's National Center for Computer Graphics and Scientific
Visualization and is a Founding Member of the Computer
History Museum.
Gaubatz was a Vice President at Digital Equipment Corporation
during the computer industry's RISC versus CISC wars.
His development groups in Palo Alto and Maynard delivered
workstations based on the MIPS, VAX, and Alpha chips,
as well as DEC's first 3D graphics and multimedia peripherals.
Earlier at DEC, Gaubatz developed the first Ethernet and
disk controllers for the MicroVAX.
Dr. Gaubatz' Ph.D. is from Cambridge University in England,
and his B.S. is from Washington University in St. Louis.
He has been on the Microprocessor Report Editorial
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Markus Levy
www.eembc.org
Markus Levy is founder and president of EEMBC, the EDN Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium, a non-profit organization chartered with the task of developing and evolving application-level benchmarks for embedded processors. Mr. Levy is also technical editorial director and analyst with Convergence Promotions for its publications, including the ARM Information Quarterly (IQ), the Atmel Applications Journal, Microsoft Resource, Motorola i.MX Resource, Infineon SPACE Program, and others.
Mr. Levy was an analyst with In-Stat/MDR for nearly three years. Prior to joining In-Stat/MDR, Levy spent seven years at EDN, writing articles that focused on microprocessors, DSPs, and associated development tools. He was particularly well known for his articles related to hands-on, in the lab testing. At EDN, Levy was also responsible for developing the annual Microprocessor and DSP directories, comprised of detailed descriptions of the popular processor architectures.
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Alan Jay Smith
Alan Jay Smith received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Stanford University, Stanford, California. He was an NSF Graduate Fellow.
He is currently a Professor in the Computer Science Divisionof the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA, where he has been on the faculty since 1974; he was vice chairman of the EECS
department from July, 1982 to June, 1984. His research interests include the analysis and modeling of computer systems and devices, computerarchitecture, and operating systems. He has publisheda large number of research papers, including one which won the IEEE Best Paper Award for the best paper in the IEEETC in 1979. He also consults widely with computer and electronics companies. He currently chairs the HotChips steering committee and has served on numerous program committees.
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