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| DATE | 2006-05-01 |
| FROM | Ron Guerin
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| SUBJECT | Subject: [NYLXS - HANGOUT] Thursday meeting on open hardware
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It's April in May. Hope to see some familiar NYLXS faces, this should
be an interesting meeting for everyone.
- Ron
May 4th, 2006 (April Meeting)
Thursday
6:30PM-8:00PM
IBM Headquarters Building
590 Madison Avenue at 57th Street
12th Floor, home to the IBM Linux Center of Competency
** RSVP Instructions **
You must RSVP for *EVERY* meeting.
Register at http://rsvp.nylug.org/
Check in with photo ID at the lobby for badge and room number.
(Due to scheduling conflicts, our April meeting is being held in May.)
Dr. Juan-Antonio Carballo
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Open Hardware
Please join us the first week of May for a special presentation by
Dr. Juan-Antonio Carballo, of IBM Venture Capital.
"Spreading to the Edges: Growing a VC Ecosystem
in a Multi-layered Open Model"
The open model for solutions development is quickly extending from
software to other technology areas, such as hardware and services.
Specifically, just as open source has spawned a revolution in the
technical, business, and legal model for software, open hardware
will provide a swell of collaborative innovation that will create
entirely new markets and provide significant business benefits to
the most creative, most reliable, and most adaptable semiconductor,
EDA, System-On-Chip (SoC), systems, SW, and service houses. The
open-source software stack with Linux as its cornerstone is
increasingly and provably the preferred choice for newly
venture-funded companies. Open hardware will also change the world
of hardware venture investing. While the degree of openness and the
business model may vary, hardware and semiconductor products have to
be increasingly developed through a collaborative model that helps
assemble IP blocks and services from multiple sources. In this talk
he will describe the open standards model for hardware, chip, and
tool innovation, and will argue and quantify how openness and a
systematic method to value its associated IP will help the success
of this environment, in that it will allow each member of the value
chain - especially small VC-backed companies - to capture enough
value to desire to participate.
About Dr. Juan-Antonio Carballo
Juan-Antonio Carballo is a partner and Venture Capital Strategy
Executive at IBM, with responsibility in the semiconductors and
systems sector, creating and managing strategic projects with
top-tier Venture Capital firms and their portfolio companies. Prior
to this assignment, Juan-Antonio has led research in adaptive
communications chips and design methodologies at IBM Research. He
won an IBM Research Division award for driving work in this area. He
has filed more than 20 patents and has near 20 publications in
low-power design, communications systems, design economics,
electronic design automation, and collaboration software. He is the
Chair of the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors
(ITRS) Design Chapter, the CTO and R&D Chair of the VSIA IP
standards organization, and the Chair of the IEEE Committee on
Electronic Design Automation. He has been on the committee of six
symposiums and conferences, and was the General Chair for Electronic
Design Processes 2004 in Monterey, CA. His prior work experience
includes stays at Digital Equipment (currently HP) and LSI Logic.
Juan-Antonio holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering (in electronic
design) from the University of Michigan, an M.B.A. from the College
des Ingenieurs (Paris), and a M.Sc. in Telecommunications
Engineering from the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid.
(any errors in bio our ours, with apologies - NYLUG)
Swag (Give Away) - After the meeting... unusually terrific swag may
be given away.
Stammtisch
After the meeting ... Join us around 8:30pm or so at TGI Friday's,
located at 677 Lexington Avenue and 56th Street, second floor.
Northeast corner.
Please see our home page at http://www.nylug.org for the HTMLized
version of this announcement, our archives, and a lot of other good
stuff.
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