Singapore-MIT Alliance
Summer Conference 2002
The 2002 Summer Conference begins with a two–day Pre–Immersion session. See below for the Pre–Immersion agenda, and biographies of speakers for this event.
The Entrepreneurship Session (Pre-Immersion) was held at Wong Auditorium, Tang Center (E-51)
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Speaker
Professor Arvind Johnson Professor in Electrical engineering and Computer Science
Abstract "Confessions of an Academic Entrepreneur"
I will describe my transformation from a person who never read the Wall Street Journal, never bought or sold stocks, and never paid much attention to the startup scene to a person who is the founder and President of a 60–person company. This has required me to understand, among other things, the concept of smart moeny and its value, the difference between Sales and Marketing, accountants notion of profitability, and why an engineer with a Ph.D. from MIT may be valued less than an engineer with a B.S. and 10–years industrial experience. I will share with you the joys and the travails of the capitalist world in my young carrier as an entrepreneur.
Biography Arvind is Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a position he has held since 1978. He holds the chair established by Charles and Jennifer Johnson and heads the Computation Structures Group in the Laboratory for Computer Science. Prior to coming to MIT, Arvind taught at the University of California, Irvine, from 1974 to 1978. Arvind received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota in 1972 and 1973, respectively. He received his B. Tech. In Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, in 1969.
Arvind's current research interest is high–level specification and descriptions of architectures and protocols using a formalism known as Term Rewriting Systems (TRS's). This research encompasses both hardware synthesis from TRS's and verification of implementation TRS's against the specification TRS. Based on this work, Arvind founded Sandburst Corporation in 2000. Sandburst is a fabless semiconductor company developing chips for 10 Gbps IP networks.
Previously, Arvind contributed to the development of dynamic dataflow architectures, the implicitly parallel programming languages Id and pH, and compilation of these languages on parallel machines. In 1992, Arvind's group at MIT built a dozen Monsoon dataflow machines and associated software in collaboration with Motorola. Recently Arvind and Dr. R. S. Nikhil have published a book on implicit parallel programming in pH.
Until 2000, Arvind served on the editorial board of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Journal of Functional Programming, and the International Journal of High Speed Computing. He has chaired and served on the program committee of numerous technical meetings sponsored by ACM and IEEE. Arvind has consulted for several major computer companies. From 1986-92, Arvind was the Chief Technical Advisor for the UN sponsored Knowledge Based Computer Systems project in India. During 1992–93 Arvind was Fujitsu Visiting Professor at the University of Tokyo. Arvind is a member of the ACM and an IEEE Fellow, and in 1994 was awarded the IEEE Charles Babbage Outstanding Scientist Award. He received the Distinguished Alumni Awards from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, in 1999 and the University of Minnesota in 2001.
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