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Working the 80/20 Rule is the Theme for the 11th Annual Workshop for Women in Design Automation; Reynette Au of nVidia to present Keynote Address
BOULDER, Colo.—(BUSINESS WIRE)—June 26, 2006—
The 43rd Design Automation Conference (DAC) will hold
the 11th Annual Workshop for Women in Design Automation (WWINDA) on
Monday, July 24, from 10 a.m.-12:45 p.m. to discuss "Working the 80/20
Rule for Success -- Focusing in on What Matters." The WWINDA keynote
address on this subject will be given by Reynette Au, vice president
of business licensing for nVidia. Other electronic design automation
(EDA) and semiconductor industry executives will share personal
experiences and discuss ideas for effectively managing priorities and
determining how to work for optimum success. The 43rd DAC, the
electronic design automation (EDA) industry's premier event, will be
held July 24-28, 2006, at the Moscone Center in San Francisco.
"This year's WWINDA focuses on a topic that is a constant struggle
for everyone," said Daya Nadamuni, WWINDA chairperson and Gartner
Dataquest chief analyst and research vice president. "Whatever your
struggles in terms of time management or meeting the expectations of
others, this panel will have messages that reach everyone who
attends."
Other speakers and panelists include panel moderator Sabina Burns,
senior director of corporate marketing and communications at Virage
Logic; Denise Brouillette, founder and president of The Innovative
Edge; Eileen Sullivan, client services group director at Cadence
Design Systems, Inc.; Kathy Papermaster, director of the
Sony/Toshiba/IBM (STI) Design Center; Soha Hassoun, associate
professor in the Department of Computer Science at Tufts University;
and Sophie Maxwell, member of the City and County of San Francisco
Board of Supervisors -- District 10.
A celebrated part of the WWINDA program is the annual presentation
of the Marie R. Pistilli Women in EDA Achievement Award. This year's
recipient is Dr. Ellen J. Yoffa, director of Next Generation Web at
IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center. The award recognizes an individual
who has made a significant contribution to the advancement of women in
the field of electronics. The award, named for former DAC organizer
Marie R. Pistilli, is open to both males and females with technical or
non-technical backgrounds in industry or academia.
The Workshop for Women in Design Automation is open to all
electronics and design automation professionals, regardless of gender.
WWINDA registration is $50 for members of ACM or IEEE and $75 for
non-members. Lunch is included and is available from 12:45-1:45 p.m.
For more information regarding registration, contact Nannette Jordan
at 303-530-4333 or via email at nannette@dac.com. Or, visit the DAC
website at http://www.dac.com.
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 250 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 available at:
www.dac.com.
Contact:
Weber Shandwick (Public Relations for DAC)
Kara Udziela, 503-552-3731
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