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From: harry.vann@ee.gatech.edu (Harry L. Vann)
Subject: Presentation by David Larrimore
You and your graduate students are cordially invited to attend a
presentation by:
Mr. David Larrimore
Wind River Systems
Monday, April 8, 1996
1:30 P.M.
Room W218, Van Leer Building
Mr. Larrimore's topic is: EMBEDDING THE INFORMATION REVOLUTION
Mr. Larrimore is the Vice President of Marketing for Wind River Systems, the
leading vendor of embedded &
real-time software tools and operating systems.
A demonstration of Wind River's software tools will be held immediately
following the presentation in W225, Van Leer.
ADDTIONAL INFORMATION
Embedding the Information Revolution
The world is changing faster than it has at any other time in history. That
change is being driven by new technology in fields such as transportation,
communications, materials science and computing. At the core of these
changes is information technology. And at the core of information
technology is the embedded processors.
Embedded processors are the computers hidden inside hundreds of things we
use every day, including cars, telephones, office equipment, consumer
electronics, medical equipment, personal organizers, and cameras. New
embedded applications are emerging quickly, especially "Internet
Applications." They are also hidden throughout the world's infrastructure,
controlling our communications, transportation, and manufacturing. Indeed,
the infrastructure is increasingly becoming software-based, as the number of
embedded computers, and therefore the software content, rises dramatically.
Although desktop computers may be more obvious to most people, embedded
computers provide most of our access to information, albeit invisibly to
most users. This will increasingly be the case, as the number of embedded
computers in the world is developing much faster than the number of desktop
computers.
Mr. Larrimore will focus on the creation of embedded software. He will
discuss the nature of the software and applications, the requirements (such
as real-time performance, portability, memory footprint and reliability),
and the operating systems and tools in commercial use today. He will also
discuss the problems, and likely areas for future work and exploration, both
in operating systems and tools.
The presentation will be of interest to researchers interested in embedded
and real-time issues, professors who may want to discuss the issues within
their curricula, and students who may be interested in working within the
booming field of embedded and real-time software.
David Larrimore received a BChE (focus on computer applications) from
Georgia Tech and an MBA (focus on technology management & international
management) from Stanford's Graduate School of Business. He is the Vice
President of Marketing for Wind River Systems, the leading embedded &
real-time software tool and operating system vendor. His experience prior
to Wind River Systems includes McKinsey & Co. as a consultant and as VP of
Marketing for Destiny Technology Corp. a developer of ASICs and software for
office automation equipment.
Thank you
Harry L. Vann
Program Coordinator
Industrial Partnership Program
School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Phone: 404-894-4025
FAX: 404-894-2997
harry.vann@ee.gatech.edu
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