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Vaire is a new kind of unconventional computation company."The search for faster and more compact computing circuits leads directly to the question: What are the ultimate physical limitations on the progress in this direction?"

Seattle, Wa, Us

Teaching "EE P 522: Embedded and Real Time Systems"Part Time Lecturer in the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department, University of Washington Seattle. Teaching on the Professional Master’s Program. This program is designed for fully-employed professionals whose primary interest is to continue their career paths while acquiring critical skills to move them into positions and projects of greater responsibility and impact.

Palo Alto, California, Us

The Software-Defined-Vehicle company. Apex.AI is a Palo Alto, Berlin, Munich, Stuttgart, and Gothenburg-based company that is developing breakthrough safe, certified, developer-friendly, and scalable software for mobility systems.Our software products are based on proven open-source software, such as ROS or Eclipse iceoryx, so that we don’t spend time redeveloping what already works. Instead, we fork software that has been developed and proven in use by large developer communities. We then add what is missing: Functional safety, flawless performance, and support for application in commercial and safety-critical products. In order to do so, we have developed a proprietary process to rework open-source software in record time such that it conforms to the highest requirements of the applicable functional safety standard.

The OPEN DASKALOS PROJECT is a view that we should start working on explaining the difficult parts of Computer Science to Society. This idea is entirely experimental and voluntary. We’re not sure that it will resonate, but we will begin the process and hopefully have some fun playing with some ideas. We are attempting to bridge the divide.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Designed and ran a special virtual module on Planning and Managing Hardware-Software Development. Taking a prototype idea to production. This was a graded module for the UW Master of Science in Technology Innovation Program.

Cambridge, Cambs, Gb

Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor and software design company, owned by SoftBank Group and its Vision Fund. Main business is designing and licensing processor and GPU IP designs. Arm innovates in both technology and new business models.Senior Principal Research Engineer in Emerging Technologies (Arm Research) for the last 5 years. Forward Research group, analyzing new hardware architecture, Machine Learning next, and next disruptions. Built abstract models to predict future technology directions, i.e., Future of Hardware, Future of Software, and Future of Advanced Algorithms. Managed the Disruptive Technology Roadmap, a CTO level database of future technologies. Reporting disruptive technology findings to the CTO.In my long career at Arm, I have had numerous other roles. At the core is the drive towards the next wave of technologies and strategic long term relationships to grow the business. Primary role Senior Principal Research Engineer responsible for the technical relationships with Strategic Software Partners, North America FAE Manager responsible for all the FAEs in NA Sales and the Strategic Support Manager responsible for the support of customers over an extremely high growth period. Secondary roles have included Chairperson of the UEFI Arm Bindings Sub Team (International Standard), in charge of US Boards and Tools sales (tripled revenue) and the Product Manager for ARMs low-cost development boards. My main focus has always been on innovating on the edge and specifically driving the next big global shifts in the business.KEYWORDS:Embedded Systems, Real-Time, Exception handling, Interrupts, Microcontrollers, DRAM/SRAM, Operating Systems, Device Drivers, Control, Phase-lock loops, C Programming Language, Arm Assembler, Power Management, Functional Safety, Reliability, Debuggers, and Simulators.

Seattle, Wa, Us

University of Washington Professional & Continuing Education Department offers a number of certificate courses. The Embedded & Real-Time Programming Certificate aims to transfer the skills needed to develop embedded and real-time software for microcontrollers and microprocessors, which are used in applications across a variety of industries – including the aerospace, automotive, medical and consumer industries. Learn to design, develop, test, debug and document low-level software for embedded devices using C programming and ARM assembly. Gain an understanding of hardware schematics and the skill set to analyze and improve the performance of a product.Created and taught a 10-week course on the "Design and Optimization of Embedded and Real-Time Systems". The students by the end of the course could design and build a fully bootable pre-emptive embedded kernel with their own device driver frame work.

Firepower Systems was acquired by the Motorola Computer Division. Firepower Systems was a specialist startup company developing a series of SMP PowerPC based workstations and servers. Firepower Systems was led by Jon Rubenstein (NeXT Computers, Apple, HP and Palm Computers). Highly efficient company financed by Canon and sold to Motorola. The innovation was more on operational side of the company leveraging a very small technical staff. The workstations could run all the major Operating Systems at the time - Microsoft Windows NT, Solaris, Mac OS and Linux. Used OpenFirmware IEEE 1275 as the boot mechanism.Mantra was "automate" never do anything twice - my primary role was to develop a fully automated software test system which automatically loaded complete Operating System instances including firmware images. Once complete it would run through a set of stability and performances tests and send out the results - all with no human involvement, increasing speed and saving technical staff doing mundane activities. Secondary role was to liaise with Microsoft Windows NT Teams, spent considerable time up in Redmond working with these teams.

EO Inc. acquired by AT&T Corporation was a spin-out of GO Corporation. EO created one of the first commercial tablet computers called the AT&T EO Personal Communicator tablet. Based on the AT&T Hobbit processor, EO Personal Communicator had wireless communication (fax, digital modem and voice). It had a number of innovative and "first" features including using HP's Kittyhawk hard drive in a mobile environment, High Res Monochrome Screen (with inductive sensing), Handwriting Recognition, SD Card slots and UNICODE. The project was collaboration between David Kelley Design, Frog Design, Matsushita, Olivetti and Marubeni Corporations.I was responsible for the software test tools and specifically the tool to test the modem software. It basically converted the EO device into a traditional wireless modem. I worked with the CEO Bob O. Evans ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_O._Evans ). Bob spent the last parts of his career trying to save high-tech companies including EO. Bob was famous for bringing out the IBM 360 project. In fact the Mythical Man-Month book is dedicated to Bob. He was one of the great people in the industry.

Acorn Computers was a highly innovative British computer company based in Cambridge, England. Acorn designed and manufactured a series of microcomputers, which were very popular in the UK. They created all the technology from hardware system designs to Operating System. The main success was a computer called the Acorn BBC Micro that was extremely pervasive in the UK Educational market. Acorn formed a small team dedicated to designing a RISC processor plus supporting chips. The team and technology eventually ended up being spun out to form ARM “the company”.I was responsible for the quality of Programming Languages running on the ARM1, ARM2 and ARM3 RISC processors. This involved running the various languages through the formal validation procedures. Languages covered included ISO Pascal, ANSI C, Prolog, Fortran 77, BCPL and Cambridge LISP. Also created an enhanced version of the Windows Template Editor !FormEd for RISC OS. Officially the 2nd student to be sponsored by Acorn Computers to go to University.