Design Automation Conference Announces Executive Committee.

BOULDER, Colo. -- The Design Automation Conference (DAC) announced its Executive Committee for the electronic design automation (EDA) industry's premier event. The committee, comprised of volunteer representatives from the electronics and EDA industries and academia, is responsible for planning the technical program, overseeing the exhibition, establishing new initiatives, managing operations and publicity for the 42nd DAC, which will be held June 13-17, 2005, at the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, Calif.

The 42nd DAC Executive Committee is led by General Chair, William H. Joyner, Jr. of IBM Corp., who will provide strategic direction for the conference. Joyner is a Research Staff Member at IBM and is on assignment as Director of Computer-Aided Design and Test at the Semiconductor Research Corporation, Research Triangle Park, N.C., where he administers part of the university-based research program of this not-for-profit industry consortium. He previously served as associate editor of IEEE Transactions on VLSI Systems, co-chair of the Design Technology Working Group for the 2003 International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors, associate editor of ACM Transactions on Design Automation of Electronic Systems, on the executive committee of the International Conference on Computer-Aided Design, and on the program committees of DAC and ICCAD.

"This year's Executive Committee brings together the best skills, talent, and dedication within the EDA and electronics communities," said Joyner. "Members were picked for their diverse backgrounds, deep expertise and knowledge. I have full confidence that this committee will continue to make DAC the most comprehensive and useful forum in the industry for attendees, researchers and exhibitors to learn, network and exchange information and ideas."

Joyner is joined by:

--Vice/Finance Chair, Ellen M. Sentovich, Cadence Berkeley Labs, Berkeley, Calif.

--Technical Program Co-Chair, Design Methods, Grant E. Martin, Tensilica, Santa Clara, Calif.

--Technical Program Co-Chair, Design Tools, Andrew B. Kahng, Univ. of California at San Diego, La Jolla, Calif.

--EDA Industry Chair, Limor Fix, Intel Semiconductors Ltd.., Haifa, Israel.

--Past Chair, Sharad Malik, Princeton Univ. , Princeton, N.J.

--Tutorial Chair, Luciano Lavagno, Politecnico di Torino, Torino Italy

--Panel Chair, Dennis Brophy, Mentor Graphics, Wilsonville, Ore.

--Design Community Chair, Ingrid Verbauwhede, Univ. of California, Los Angeles, Calif.

--New Initiatives Chair, Steven P. Levitan, Univ. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa.

--Publicity Chair, Nanette V. Collins, Nanette V. Collins Marketing and PR, Boston, Mass., and San Francisco, Calif.

--Europe/Middle East Representative, Ahmed A. Jerraya, TIMA Lab., Grenoble Cedex, France

--Asia/South Pacific Representative, Yusuke Matsunaga, Kyushu University Kagus, Fukuoka, Japan

--ACM/SIGDA Representative, Robert Walker, Kent State Univ., Kent, Ohio

--IEEE-CASS Representative, Al Dunlop, Crossbow Consulting LLC, Kattskill Bay, NY

--EDA Consortium Representative, Larry Eberle, Synopsys, Inc., Mountain View, Calif.

and conference management:

--Exhibits Manager, Lee Wood, MP Associates, Inc., Boulder, Colo.

--Conference Manager, Kevin Lepine, MP Associates, Inc., Boulder, Colo.

About DAC

DAC is the premier forum for the electronic design industry to exchange information on products, methodologies and processes. Attended by more than 10,000 developers, designers, researchers, managers and engineers from leading electronics companies and universities around the world, DAC includes more than 200 exhibitors and offers a robust technical program covering the electronics industry's hottest trends to bring people to the event.

The conference is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Design Automation (ACM/SIGDA), the Circuits and Systems Society and Computer Aided Network Design Technical Committee of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE/CASS/CANDE), and the Electronic Design Automation Consortium (EDA Consortium). More details about DAC are found at: www.dac.com.