Don Alpert

www.camelback-comparch.com

Don Alpert is manager and principal consultant of Camelback Computer Architecture, LLC, which offers computer architecture consulting services to assess technology, develop products, and protect intellectual property.

Dr. Alpert has over 20 years leadership experience at Intel, National Semiconductor, and Zilog. He was a principal architect of the Pentium Processor. Dr. Alpert has a Ph.D., M.S. and B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering from Stanford and MIT. He was the past chair of IEEE Technical Committee on Microprocessors and Microcomputers. He taught graduate-level classes in computer architecture at Stanford, Tel Aviv, and ASU.

Richard Belgard

http://sites.google.com/site/belgard

Rich Belgard has been active in the computer industry for more than 30 years. Over these years, he designed and managed the development of computer architectures at Burroughs, Data General, Tandem Computers and Rational Software, including hardware, software and microarchitecture. He is co-inventor on 18 patents; sole inventor on 5 patents and currently has other pending patents.

Rich is the past Chairman and Vice-Chairman of the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Microarchitectures, and past Vice-Chair of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Technical Committee on Microprogramming and Microarchitectures. Rich is an IEEE Fellow.

Rich has participated in intellectual property lawsuits, including patent, copyright, and trade secret. He has been involved in many "clean-room" development projects. Rich has written articles and presented lectures on the subject of reverse engineering, including how to perform it and how to prevent it.

Rich currently consults for computer manufacturers, software companies, and investor groups and as an expert and consultant to law firms. His current interests are in high-tech patents and intellectual property. He is a director of private software and hardware companies.

Jeff Deutsch

www.deutsch.com

Dr. Jeffrey T. Deutsch has over 25 years of experience in architecture, algorithms, and implementation of highly complex hardware/software systems. Dr. Deutsch has been the founder of a number of Silicon Valley startups, producing a wide range of products, including multiprocessor servers, cluster computing systems, VLSI design tools, and special purpose hardware for simulation.

Dr. Deutsch is currently president of Deutsch Research. Deutsch Research provides consulting in the areas of multiprocessor hardware and software design/development, including VLSI multiprocessor architecture, parallelizing compilers and multiprocessor software development environments, and algorithms and implementation techniques for multiprocessor applications software. Deutsch Research also produces the well known DR SPICE analog and mixed A/D simulation programs.

Dr. Deutsch holds a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley, and is an alumnus of Bell Labs, BBN, DEC and HP. Dr. Deutsch has been a member of the editorial board of Microprocessor Report since 1992.

Dave Epstein

www.crosslinkcapital.com

Dave Epstein joined Crosslink Capital in 2001 and is a partner focusing on its core technology/semiconductor venture investing activities. He has been starting, managing, and helping high tech companies grow for over 25 years. Prior to joining Crosslink, Mr. Epstein served as strategic consultant to Transmeta, CEO of XStream Logic and founding CEO of Raycer Graphics. He was Vice President of Engineering at NexGen and Kendall Square Research after starting his career at Data General, which was chronicled in Tracy Kidder's Soul of a New Machine.

Mr. Epstein serves on the Microprocessor Report editorial board and is named on 13 patents in Computer Architecture and Systems. He holds a BSEE and MSEE from the University of Wisconsin and an MBA from Boston University.

Michael Flynn

Michael Flynn is Emeritus Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford. Professor Flynn began his engineering career at IBM as a designer of mainframe computers and while there received his PhD from Purdue University in 1961. He became Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford in 1975 where he set up the Stanford Architecture and Arithmetic group. Some of his best-known work includes the development of the stream outline of computer organization (SIMD, etc.), techniques for the simultaneous execution of multiple instructions and algorithms for high speed arithmetic.

Prof. Flynn received the ACM/IEEE Eckert-Mauchley Award and the Harry Goode Memorial Award for his contributions to computer architecture. He was awarded an honorary DSc from the University of Dublin and is a fellow of both the IEEE and ACM.

Don Gaubatz

Phone: 978.853.9934

Dr. Donald Gaubatz consults internationally for large computer, networking, and semiconductor companies and for start-ups. He advises independent research labs on strategy, funding, technology transfer, and spin-outs. He is on the Advisory Board of the NSF's National Center for Computer Graphics and Scientific Visualization and is a Founding Member of the Computer History Museum.

Gaubatz was a Vice President at Digital Equipment Corporation during the computer industry's RISC versus CISC wars. His development groups in Palo Alto and Maynard delivered workstations based on the MIPS, VAX, and Alpha chips, as well as DEC's first 3D graphics and multimedia peripherals. Earlier at DEC, Gaubatz developed the first Ethernet and disk controllers for the MicroVAX.

Dr. Gaubatz' Ph.D. is from Cambridge University in England, and his B.S. is from Washington University in St. Louis. He has been on the Microprocessor Report Editorial Board since 1995.

Markus Levy

www.eembc.org

Markus Levy is founder and president of EEMBC, the EDN Embedded Microprocessor Benchmark Consortium, a non-profit organization chartered with the task of developing and evolving application-level benchmarks for embedded processors. Mr. Levy is also technical editorial director and analyst with Convergence Promotions for its publications, including the ARM Information Quarterly (IQ), the Atmel Applications Journal, Microsoft Resource, Motorola i.MX Resource, Infineon SPACE Program, and others.

Mr. Levy was an analyst with /MDR for nearly three years. Prior to joining In-Stat/MDR, Levy spent seven years at EDN, writing articles that focused on microprocessors, DSPs, and associated development tools. He was particularly well known for his articles related to hands-on, in the lab testing. At EDN, Levy was also responsible for developing the annual Microprocessor and DSP directories, comprised of detailed descriptions of the popular processor architectures.