Keynote talk: Embedded vision systems

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

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 char...

Why We Must Talk About Institutional Corruption to Understand Wrongdoing in the Health Sector; Comment on “We Need to Talk About Corruption in Health Systems”

While various forms of corruption are common in many health systems around the world, defining wrongdoing in terms of legality and the use of public office for private gain obstructs our understanding of its nature and intractability. To address this, I suggest, we must not only break the silence about the extent of wrongdoing in the health sector, but also talk differe...

Keynote 1: The golden age of pervasive computing

The notion of Ubiquitous (or Pervasive) Computing was first eloquently described by Mark Weiser at Xerox PARC in the early 1990’s. He proposed a vision in which the personal computing model would evolve from one person using one computer, to many (perhaps hundreds) of computers per person; and that computing would become wirelessly embedded in the world around us, tacitly supporting our work pr...

Keynote talk: Environmentally sustainable large scale distributed systems

Corruption – Taking a Deeper Dive; Comment on “We Need to Talk About Corruption in Health Systems”

This commentary while agreeing broadly with the points raised by the editorial by McKee et al, seeks to broaden and deepen those arguments. The commentary contends that unless we understand corruption as deeply embedded in and propping up systems of power differentials, we will not be able to design interventions that will tackle corruption at its roots. The commentary further points to the con...