IEEE SOCC 2014 - Speakers History

SOCC 2013 - Erlangen, Germany
Keynote:	Ronald M. Martino	Vice President, Product Development and Hardware R&D Freescale Automotive MCU Product Group "The Roadway to Innovation"
Plenary:	Carsten Elgert	Product Marketing Director IP-Group Cadence Design Systems Inc. “The pig in the poke? – Strategies to avoid unpleasant surprises with IP on your SoC”
Plenary:	Volker Politz	Vice President of Business Development Imagination, Inc., USA “Visions of future SoC Design: Why Heterogeneous Architectures and Power Matter”
Plenary:	Bill Huffman	Chief Architect Tensilica, Inc. “Processor-to-Memory Interface Design Methodologies for Energy and Performance Efficiencies”
Plenary:	Jonathan Young	Director Design Consulting Synospys Inc. “Power-Centric Timing Optimization for Low Power CPU Hardening”
Banquet:	Juergen Herre	Chief Scientist, Audio/Multimedia Activities, Fraunhofer IIS, Professor at University Erlangen-Nuernberg and International Audio Labs Erlangen "The MP3 story and more: Perceptual Audio Coding from its Beginnings to the Present"
SOCC 2012 - Niagara Falls, USA
Keynote:	Bernard S. Meyerson	IBM Fellow Vice President, Innovation & Global University Relations IBM Systems and Technology Group “Driving Innovation in the "Post-Silicon" World”
Plenary:	Richard Grisenthwaite	ARM Fellow, VP of Technology, ARM “ Low power solutions for a smarter future”
Plenary:	Raj Yavatkar	Intel Fellow, Director, System-on-Chip Architecture Intel Architecture Group “Era of SoCs: What is next?”
Plenary:	Robert E. Geer	Vice President for Academic Affairs and Chief Academic Officer Professor of NanoScience College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE), University at Albany, SUNY “Connectivity Driven Systems: On-Chip, Off-chip and In-between”
SOCC 2011 - Taipei, Taiwan
Keynote:	Yale N. Patt	Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and Ernest Cockrell, Jr. Centennial Chair in Engineering, The University of Texas at Austin “The Future Microprocessor: Return of the ASIC”
Plenary:	Giovanni De Micheli	Professor and Director, Institute of Electrical Engineering, Integrated Systems Centre, EPF Lausanne, Switzerland “Nanosystems: technologies and architectures for sensing and computing”
Plenary:	Chih-Kung Lee	President, Institute for Information Industry, Taipei, Taiwan, Lifetime Distinguished Professor, Institute of Applied Mechanics, and Lifetime Distinguished Professor, Department of Engineering Science and Ocean Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan “From Global Telecare Development Trends to Taiwan's Biomedical Electronic System: Opportunity and Outlook”
Plenary:	Gideon Intrater	VP of Product Marketing and Applications, MIPS Technologies “Boosting performance efficiency in multiprocessor systems through multi-threading”
Luncheon:	Laung-Terng (L.-T.) Wang	President & CEO SynTest Technologies, Inc. “Introduction to SoC Testing”
SOCC 2010 - Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
Keynote:	Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli	Professor, University of California at Berkeley, and Chief Technology Advisor, Cadence Design Systems “SoC Design as an Example of Component-Based Design of Distributed Systems”
Plenary:	Michael Keating	Fellow, Synopsys Inc. ”Third Revolution: The Search for Scalable Code-Based Design”
Plenary:	Sandra Woodward	Senior Technical Staff Member, PowerEN Processor Chip Technical Lead, IBM Corp. ”The IBM Power Edge of Network™ Processor: A wire-speed System-on-a-Chip (SOC): Technical Overview and Challenges for a Large Complex SOC used in Next-Generation Systems”
Plenary:	Jo Dale Carothers	Partner, Covington & Burling LLP “What You Need to Know About Patent Litigation”
Luncheon:	P.R.Mukund	President and CEO, NanoArk Corp. “From Film to Silicon: The Migration of Document Archiving Technology”
SOCC 2009 - Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Keynote:	Hermann Eul	Member of the Management Board, Executive VP Sales, Marketing, Technology and R&D, Infineon “The future of mobile broadband internet – powered by the semiconductor industry”
Plenary:	James O’Riordan	Chief Technology Officer & VP Corporate Development, Silicon & Software Systems Ltd. “What are the Real Innovations that Fabless Companies should be looking at?”
Plenary:	Liang-Gee Chen	Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, National Taiwan University “Toward neocortical computing with tera-scale SOC”
SOCC 2008 - Newport Beach, CA
Keynote:	Nick Ilyadis	VP and CTO of Enterprise Networking Group, Broadcom “SOC Challenges in the Terabit Networks Era”
Plenary:	Alexander D. Peleg	Vice President, Mobility Group Director, Intel Architecture Strategic and Platform Planning Intel Corporation “Future Trends in PC Computing and their Implications to SoC”
Plenary:	Kamran Eshraghian	President, Eshraghian Laboratories Pty Ltd., and Ferrero Family Chair in Electrical Engineering, University of California, Merced. “Surfing the iSoC Multitechnology Platform: Volumetric Growth beyond Moore's Law”
Luncheon:	David F. Doody	Flight Operations Lead, Cassini Mission Support & Services, NASA Jet Propulsion Lab “Cassini-Huygens at Saturn”
“Hot Topic” Plenary:	Iain Richardson	Director, Centre for Video Communications, The Robert Gordon University, UK “Dynamic Configuration: Beyond Video Coding Standards”
SOCC 2007 - Hsinchu, Taiwan - 20th Anniversary
Keynote:	Jackson Hu	Chairman and CEO, United Microelectronics Corporation ”Will Moore’s Law continue ?”
Plenary:	Dave Holt	President and CEO, Lightspeed Logic, Inc. ”Beyond Standard Cells”
Plenary:	Heinrich Meyr	Director, Institute for Integrated Signal Processing Systems, Aachen University of Technology ”A future of heterogeneous many processor SoCs: Nightmare or a necessary paradigm change?”
Luncheon:	Sheng-Chun (Paul) Lo	Sr. VP and GM, Analog/Mixed-Signal Group, Synopsys
SOCC 2006 - Austin, TX
Keynote:	Gene Frantz	Principal Fellow, Texas Instruments “How the Shrinking System is creating an Expanding Market”
Plenary:	Jan Rabaey	Donald O. Pederson Distinguished Professor, University of California at Berkeley “Curing the ailments of nanometer CMOS through self-healing and resiliency”
Plenary:	Jim Kahle	IBM Fellow and Director of Technology, STI Design Center for Cell Technology, IBM Corporation
Luncheon:	Dean Cubley	Director and Chairman, ERF Wireless Director, Eagle Broadband Inc. “The Wild West Days of NASA”
SOCC 2005 - Washington, DC
Keynote:	Hans Stork	Senior VP & CTO, Texas Instruments, Inc. “Advanced CMOS Technology for Digital Communication Systems“
Plenary:	Ivo Bolsens	Vice President and CTO, Xilinx “FPGA, The Heart of Embedded Systems”
Plenary:	Jacques Benkoski	Entrepreneur in Residence, US Venture Partners “The Evolving Silicon Infrastructure: Issues and Opportunities”
Luncheon:	Rajesh Galivanche	Principal Engineer, Intel “Test Challenges for Nanometer Designs”
SOCC 2004 - Santa Clara, CA
Keynote:	Paul E. Jacobs	Executive VP and President, QUALCOMM Wireless & Internet Group “Beyond Voice: The third Generatin of Wireless”
Plenary:	Kiyoo Itoh	Fellow, Hitachi Ltd. “Review and Prospects of Low-Voltage RAM Circuits”
Plenary:	James D. Meindl	Director, Microelectronics Research Center, Georgia Institute of Technology “The Interconnect Era of ASIC/SOC Technology”
Banquet:	Michael Riordan	Adjunct Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz “The Roots of Silicon Valley”
Luncheon:	Jürgen Koehl	Distinguished Engineer, IBM Systems and Technology Group “IBM ASIC Design TAT Reducton”
SOC 2003 - Portland, OR
Keynote:	Hyung Kyu Lim	President, System LSI Business, Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. “Expanding Mobile Space: Challenges and Opportunities”
Plenary:	Mi-Chang Chang	Director of Design Service Division, TSMC
Plenary:	Dennis Buss	Vice President, Silicon Technology Development, Texas Instruments “CMOS SoC Technology For Personal Internet Products”
Banquet:	Gene Frantz	Principal Fellow, Texas Instruments “A History of Speak-and-Spell and How DSP Evolved”
ASIC/SOC 2002 - Rochester, NY
Keynote:	Hirokazu Hashimoto	Senior Vice President, NEC Electron Devices, NEC Corporation Chairman, NEC Electronics Inc.
Plenary:	Tom Bednar	Senior Technical Staff Member, IBM Microelectronics
Banquet:	Kumar Krishen	Fellow, Society for Design And Process Science (SDPS) “New Technologies that can Support Human Exploration of Space”
ASIC/SOC 2001 - “SoC in a Networked World” - Arlington, VA (This conference was cancelled because of Sept. 11 attacks)
Keynote:	Hirokazu Hashimoto	President and CEO, NEC Electronics Inc.
Plenary:	Behzad Razavi	University of California, Los Angeles, and Transpectrum Technologies “Challenges in IC Design for Optical Communication Systems”
Plenary:	Peter Robinson	API NetWorks “HyperTransport Technology for Networking”
Banquet:	John Tanner	President & CEO, Tanner Research Inc. “Low Volume Manufacture of Chips, Boards, and Enclosures”
ASIC/SOC 2000 - “System-on-Chip in the Internet Age” - Arlington, VA
Keynote:	John E. Kelly, III	Senior Vice President & Group Executive, Technology Group, IBM Corp. "Communications System-on-a-chip - Opportunity and Challenges"
Plenary:	Wolfgang Roethig	NEC Electronics "Design for Signal Integrity on SoC"
Luncheon:	James Urquhart	Chief Operating Officer and Director, ARM Holdings plc.
ASIC/SOC 1999 - “The Road to System-on-Chip (SOC)” - Arlington, VA
Keynote:	Wilfred J. Corrigan	Chairman and CEO, LSI Logic Corporation "System-on-a-chip in the Internet Economy"
Plenary:	James D. Meindl	Director, Microelectronics Research Center, Georgia Institute of Technology "Opportunities and Persistent Limits on a GSI System-on-a-Chip"
Plenary:	Yervant Zorian	Chief Technology Advisor, LogicVision, Inc. "System-on-Chip Test Strategies"
Plenary:	Kensall D. Wise	Director, Center for Integrated Microsystems, University of Michigan “INTEGRATED MICROSYSTEMS: Merging MEMS, Micropower Electronics, and Wireless Communications”
Banquet:	Leon Chua	Director of Nonlinear Electronics Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley "Nanostructures and Cellular Neural Networks"
Luncheon:	Juri Matisoo and Ram Krishnamurthy	Vice President of Technology, Silicon Industry Association Intel Corp. "SIA’s International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors"
ASIC 1998 - “ULSI - Making it Real” - Rochester, NY
Keynote:	Raul Camposano	Chief Technical Officer, Senior Vice President & General Manager Design Tools, Sysopsys Inc. "Design Technology for System on a Chip"
Banquet:	James F. Bell III	Cornell University Dept. of Astronomy "NASA Mars Rovers and Orbiters: Imaging the Geologic History of the Red Planet"
Luncheon:	Vic Kulkarni	Head of Library Business Unit, Avant! Corporation "Silicon Intellectual Property: The Passport to System-on-a-Chip"
ASIC 1997 - “Portable Solutions” - Portland, OR
Keynote:	Eli Harari	President & CEO, SanDisk Corporation "Flash Memory-the Universal Digital Storage Medium for the Coming Age of Consumer Electronics"
Banquet:	John Tanner	President & CEO, Tanner Research Inc. "The Future of EDA: An Alternative View"
Luncheon:	Levy Gerzberg	President & CEO, Zoran Corp. "Entrepreneurship in the U.S."
ASIC 1996 - “VLSI Systems Solutions” - Rochester, NY
Keynote:	Walter Davis	Senior Vice President and Director of Strategic Semiconductor Operations for the Messaging Systems Products Group, Motorola, Inc "The Role of VLSI in Wireless Communication"
Banquet:	Irwin Federman	Senior Partner, US Venture Partners “Venture Capital Perspectives on the Information Technology Revolution”
Luncheon:	Charles (Bob) Hewes	Texas Instruments “The Convergence of DSP and ASIC”
ASIC 1995 - “Implementing the Information Superhighway with Emerging Technologies” - Austin, TX
Keynote:	Peng H. Ang	Vice President and General Manager Consumer Products Division, LSI Logic Corporation “ASIC Technology: The Driving force behind the Information Superhighway”
Banquet:	Brad Cox	George Mason University "Taming the Electronic Frontier"
Luncheon:	David M. Williams	Director of Home Media Lab, Intel “The Soul of a New Medium - Musings on the Information Superhighway”
ASIC 1994 - Rochester, NY
Keynote:	Ron Smith	General Manager PCI Components Division, Intel Corporation “Performance Issues for PCs in the Consumer Market”
Banquet:	Robert A. Pease	National Semiconductor "What's All This Feedback Stuff?"
Luncheon:	Arpad G. Toth	Imaging Research Laboratories, Eastman Kodak “Image Enabled Multimedia Communications”
ASIC 1993 - Rochester, NY
Keynote:	Aart J. de Geus	President, Synopsys, Inc. “One Million Gate ASIC? Not with Present EDA Tools and Methodology!”
Banquet:	V. Michael Bove, Jr.	MIT Media Laboratory "Hardware and Software Implications of Representing Scenes as Data"
Luncheon:	Richard S. Wolff	Director, Personal Communications Applications Research, Bellcore “Personal Communications Applications: New Opportunities and Challenges for ASIC Designers”
ASIC 1992 - Rochester, NY
Keynote:	Hal Alles	Chief Architect, Mentor Graphics Corp. “ICs and ASICs at Thirty-Something”
Keynote:	S. Samuel Liu	President, Silicon Integrated Systems Corp., Taiwan R.O.C. ”ASICs in the 90's -- an Asia Pacific Perspective”
Banquet:	Bruce R. Bourbon	President and CEO, Vertex Semiconductor Corp, a Toshiba Subsidiary "The Design Gap"
Luncheon:	Michael J. Barry	CD Imaging Development, Eastman Kodak Company “The Photo CD Imaging System”
ASIC 1991 - Rochester, NY
Keynote:	Frederick T. Tucker	Senior Vice President, General Manager Automotive and Industrial Group, Motorola Inc. “ASICs in the Automotive Industry”
Keynote:	Tommy Ng	General Manager of ICCAD Advanced Design Automation, Mentor Graphics Corp. ”Design Methodology in High Complexity ASIC Design”
Keynote:	Douglas B. Boyle	Director, Hardware Engineering, Sun Microsystems Engineering “CAD Requirements for High-Volume, High Performance, Low Cost Designs”
Banquet:	David G. Richardson	Vice President, Integrated Components, Northern Telecom Electronics, Ontario, Canada "ASICs and High Performance Telecommunication Systems"
Luncheon:	Bruce McWilliams	Senior Vice President, Chief Technical Officer, nCHIP, Inc. “Multichip Modules Today and Tomorrow”
ASIC 1990 - Rochester, NY
Keynote:	Rajinder Khosla	Director, Microelectronics Technology Division Research Labs, Eastman Kodak “System Integration using ASICs in the 90's”
Keynote:	Robert Walker	Vice President, Technical Marketing, LSI Logic Corp. “ASIC Tests in the Nineties”
Keynote:	James A. Rowson	Fellow, VLSI Technology Inc. “1990's ASIC CAD: Getting the System Right”
Keynote:	Robert B. Johnson	Vice President, ASIC Division, National Semiconductor Corp. "Single Vendor Solution"
Banquet:	Charles P. Holt	Vice President, Systems Reprographic Development Unit, Xerox Corp. "The Document Processing Explosion of the 90s"
Luncheon:	Walter Kleinfelder	Senior Research Manager, IBM Watson Research Center “Research Parallel Processor Prototype”

	TOM BECKLEY Senior Vice President of R&D Cadence Design Systems, Inc.
	SCOTT RUNNER VP of Advanced Methodologies and Low-Power Design Qualcomm
	J. THOMAS PAWLOWSKI Fellow and Chief Technologist Micron Technology, Inc.
	Jeffrey D. Brown Distinguished Engineer, Emerging Product Development IBM
	PAUL EREMENKO Director, Project Ara Google

Distinguished Speakers History

SOCC 2013 - Erlangen, Germany

SOCC 2012 - Niagara Falls, USA

SOCC 2011 - Taipei, Taiwan

SOCC 2010 - Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

SOCC 2009 - Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

SOCC 2008 - Newport Beach, CA

SOCC 2007 - Hsinchu, Taiwan - 20th Anniversary

SOCC 2006 - Austin, TX

SOCC 2005 - Washington, DC

SOCC 2004 - Santa Clara, CA

SOC 2003 - Portland, OR

ASIC/SOC 2002 - Rochester, NY

ASIC/SOC 2001 - “SoC in a Networked World” - Arlington, VA

ASIC/SOC 2000 - “System-on-Chip in the Internet Age” - Arlington, VA

ASIC/SOC 1999 - “The Road to System-on-Chip (SOC)” - Arlington, VA

ASIC 1998 - “ULSI - Making it Real” - Rochester, NY

ASIC 1997 - “Portable Solutions” - Portland, OR

ASIC 1996 - “VLSI Systems Solutions” - Rochester, NY

ASIC 1995 - “Implementing the Information Superhighway with Emerging Technologies” - Austin, TX

ASIC 1994 - Rochester, NY

ASIC 1993 - Rochester, NY

ASIC 1992 - Rochester, NY

ASIC 1991 - Rochester, NY

ASIC 1990 - Rochester, NY

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TOM BECKLEY

SCOTT RUNNER

J. THOMAS PAWLOWSKI

Jeffrey D. Brown

PAUL EREMENKO

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