Looking into the Crystal Ball: From Transistors to the Smart Earth

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Alberto L. Sangiovanni-Vincentelli

Donatella Sciuto

چکیده

h IN 2003 AT the 40th DAC keynote and then in [1], the history of Electronic Design Automation was summarized following Giovan Battista Vico, the first philosopher who analyzed history and its patterns. Vico’s fundamental contribution was that history repeats itself with a regular pattern. He identified three phases: The age of gods, the age of heroes and the age of men. The age of gods is characterized by knowledge that comes to people from the use of their senses. The age of heroes is characterized by the use of imagination that lets people supersede the sensory information to find the first abstract interpretations of reality. It is the age of creativity, the foundation of great human achievements. The age of men is characterized by reason, during which people fear novelty and Editor’s notes: This paper is based on a keynote talk presented by Prof. SangiovanniVincentelli at the 50th DAC. It discusses the evolution of cyber-physical and bio-cyber systems leading us to a smarter planet, and it predicts how EDA and embedded systems have to expand into this new field. VYervant Zorian, Synopsys Prof. Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli receives the 50th DAC appreciation award upon the completion of his keynote address.

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