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Friday
9:00 AM - 10:20 AM
January 11, 2008
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Globalization
Trends in CE Design, Manufacturing, and Sales
Presenter:
Ms. Frances K. O'Sullivan
Lenovo
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BIOGRAPHY
Frances
K. (Fran) O’Sullivan
Frances K. (Fran) O’Sullivan is senior vice president,
Product Group, with worldwide responsibility for all
Think-, IBM- and Lenovo-branded desktops, notebooks,
displays,
options and services. Most recently, she was senior
vice president and COO of Lenovo International (the
operations of the former IBM Personal Computing Division).
Previously,
she was general manager of IBM's PC Division.
Ms. O’Sullivan was with IBM for 24 years, the last
21 of them in the personal computer business. She
began her career with IBM with an assignment to NASA’s
Space Shuttle Program at Cape Kennedy, Florida. She
then transferred to IBM’s PC Division and gained engineering
and management expertise in development, manufacturing,
procurement, and technical and business operations.
Her long association with the PC Division includes
general management of ThinkPad worldwide operations,
leading ThinkPad worldwide development, consumer desktop
development, and, most recently, developing and
executing the Think strategy.
Ms. O’Sullivan graduated from the University of Virginia
with a bachelor’s degree in
Electrical Engineering and serves on the University
of Virginia Engineering Industry
Advisory Board.
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Friday
12:20 PM - 2:10 PM
January 11, 2008
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Meeting
the Challenges
of Digital Convergence
on
CE Platforms
Sponsored by Intel
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BIOGRAPHY
Bradley D. Daniels
Bradley D. Daniels is the director of Consumer Products
Engineering in the Digital
Home Group of Intel. Brad has been with Intel for over
20 years in a variety of
engineering management positions. His current role involves
development of highly
integrated system on chip (SoC) products and the firmware/drivers
for the devices. His responsibilities include the architecture,
design, manufacturing, validation, and SW
elements necessary to deliver the complete Consumer Electronics
platform. In addition
to the well known Intel technologies around CPU's and
chipsets, the consumer products
team is working on technologies such as video decode,
display processing, audio decode/encode, graphics, and
RF demodulation/tuners. Brad received a bachelor's
degree in Electrical Engineering from Arizona State University
in 1984.
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Saturday
12:20 PM - 2:20 PM
January 12, 2008
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Awards
Luncheon Keynote
Ralph
H. Baer
R.H. Baer
Consultants
2008 IEEE Masaru Ibuka Consumer Electronics
Award Winner
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BIOGRAPHY
Ralph H. Baer
Mr. Baer, a Senior Member of IEEE since 1969, is an independent
engineering consultant
and internationally-known inventor generally credited
with creating the videogame industry
in the 1960's. Mr. Baer has been an active engineer for
the past sixty years and has accumulated over 150 U.S.
and foreign patents, many of which are in the CE area
and
have resulted in a variety of products, including a series
of electronic toys and games.
These include the SIMON game, an early single-chip microprocessor-controlled
game
which has been popular for over 30 years. Mr. Baer Is
the recipient of many professional honors including the
National Medal of Technology which was presented to him
by the President of the US in 2006. Mr. Baer will present
a brief review of his sixty years of CE product engineering
including a brief video showing a demonstration of a video
ping-pong
game played by him and an associate in 1967
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Sunday
12:20 PM - 2:20 PM
January 13, 2008
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Closing
Luncheon Keynote
Grant Imahara
Host of
Mythbusters
Star Wars Special Effects
Winning Battlebot Designer
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BIOGRAPHY
Grant Imahara
Before becoming a Mythbuster, Grant Imahara was an animatronics
engineer and model maker for George Lucas' Industrial
Light & Magic (ILM) in Marin County, California. He specialized
in electronics and radio control at the ILM Model Shop,
and has credits on numerous movies, including Jurassic
Park: The Lost World, Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom
Menace, Galaxy Quest, AI: Artificial Intelligence, Star
Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones, Terminator 3:
Rise of the Machines, Matrix: Reloaded and Revolutions,
and most recently, Van Helsing and Star Wars: Episode
III.
He has installed electronics in R2-D2 units for Star Wars
Episodes I and II, replacing the halogen light source
and rotating color wheel (for the sparkly lights) with
a custom microcontroller-based LED circuit that was originally
created to make the pulsating lights for the main engines
of the Protector, from Galaxy Quest. He also upgraded
all of the radio equipment and speed controls to modern
standards. Along with R2-D2 Crew Chief Don Bies and Nelson
Hall, he is one of only three official R2-D2 operators
in the United States.
Grant developed a custom circuit to cycle the Energizer
Bunny's arm beats and ears at a constant rate. He performed
all electronics installation and radio programming on
the current generation of Bunnies. He later became the
Bunny's driver and the Crew Supervisor on numerous commercials
in Los Angeles, Vancouver, Mexico, and New Zealand.
For fun, Grant has competed in Comedy Central’s BattleBots
with his robot "Deadblow," which he designed and built.
Deadblow won two Middleweight Rumbles and was the Middleweight
runner-up in 2000. It set a record for most number of
hits in the first season of the show, and was ranked number
one in Season 3.0. In 2003, Wiley Technology Publishing
released Grant’s book Kickin’ Bot: An Illustrated Guide
to Building Combat Robots. At 528 pages long, it is regarded
by many combat robot-building enthusiasts as the “bible”
for that sport. It has a five-star average customer review
on Amazon.com.
Grant appeared on TLC’s Junkyard Wars in a two-hour special
called “Junkyard Wars Goes to the Movies” as the captain
of Team ILM. They created a 13-foot tall R2-D2 out of
junk in 20 hours that was equipped with a flamethrower,
hydraulic lifting arm and CO2 pneumatic projectile gun.
Team ILM won the competition, which challenged the junkyard
machines to destroy a fleet of attacking aliens with their
various weapons.
Grant has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering
from the University of Southern California. He picked
up his mechanical skills from the machinists at the ILM
Model Shop, many of whom date back to Howard the Duck
(1986). Grant’s skill set includes electronics design
and fabrication, machining, welding, woodworking, CAD
layout, pneumatics, CNC programming, and laser cutting,
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