Keynote

Random Thoughts after 60 years in the Trenches

Yale Patt, University of Texas at Austin; Virginia Cockerell Centennial Endowed Chair

After 60 years in the trenches, I have come up with a fair number of thoughts that I can share with you.  Why do we engineers insist on coming up with a  widget before we validate someone’s research.  The rest of the world values scholarship, understanding today what we did not understand yesterday, and the hell with widgets.  You will never move the needle unless you work on challenging problems, assuming you want to move the needle and are not satisfied with solutions to mickey mouse problems that no one cares about.  The chiplet is a long overdue component of tailoring the microengine.  Bottom-up is for understanding, Top-down is for design.  Top up?  That is for the clueless who will never move the needle.  Is Open-Source really going to live up to its hype.  I have talked to more than a few chief architects of open source designs. In this talk, I will explore many of the above and some of those things not mentioned above in hopes of increasing both of our knowledge.

Bio: Yale Patt is a teacher at The University of Texas at Austin and the Virginia Cockrell Centennial Endowed Chair in the Cockrell School of Engineering. He earned obligatory degrees from reputable Universities and has received more than his share of awards for his research and teaching. More information is available on his website Yale Patt for those who want it.