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2003 IEEE-BCS Events

2003 Annual Banquet

Comedian Bob Sesek and BCS Chair Terry Burkes

July 2003 Techncal Seminar

Open Source Security Tools

John Griffin, Computer Science Department, College of Engineering, Boise State University

ABSTRACT: The talk will focus on a small number of commonly used open source security tools related to secure communication and authentication (e.g., OpenSSH and OpenSSL). The presentation will include information on the cryptographic methods used and potential weaknesses of some tools. Time permitting, two Linux distributions with unusual security features will also be discussed.

BIOGRAPHY: John Griffin received his Ph.D. in math from Washington State University. He has taught computer science at North Dakota State University and at Boise State University. He is currently chair of Computer Science at Boise State University. His academic interests include operating systems and computer security. His hobbies include hiking, mountain biking, and woodworking.

May 2003 Technical Seminar

The Middle Path: Globally-Asynchronous Locally-Synchronous (GALS) Design

Scott Smith, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, College of Engineering, Boise State University

ABSTRACT: This is a gentle introduction to globally-asynchronous locally-synchronous (GALS) design for system-on-a-chip (SoC). Problems with clock skew are examined. Reasons why global clocking will not be acceptable for future large integrated circuits are given and the possible alternative of fully- asynchronous design is discussed.

The middle path is to use traditional synchronous design in the small and asynchronous design in the large. This allows the reuse of existing intellectual property (IP) logic blocks, yet avoids the need to design large low-skew clock trees. The issue of metastability avoidance versus low latency in asynchronous interfaces between clock domains is addressed. Also, discussed is the possibility of deadlock and problems encountered if the asynchronous interfaces interfere with the local clocks.

BIOGRAPHY: Scott has been with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Boise State University since the fall of 2000. He teaches computer engineering courses, including embedded and portable computing, microprocessors, digital systems test, buses and interfaces, and advanced computer architecture. His research interests include asynchronous logic design, single-chip shared-memory multiprocessors, and computing hardware for bioinformatics and cryptographic applications.

Previously Scott worked for the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (New London, CT) designing signal processing systems for passive submarine sonar. He also worked for the Singer Company (Wayne, NJ) designing a digital control loop for a mechanical gyro and Pennsylvania Power and Light Company (Allentown, PA) modeling the thermal-hydraulics of a commercial nuclear power reactor.
He has previously taught at SUNY-Plattsburgh (Plattsburgh, NY) and taught courses as an adjunct at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, NY), SUNY-Albany (Albany, NY), and Siena College (Loudonville, NY).

March 2003 Technical Seminar

PDA Programming

Scott Jeide, Extended Systems

ABSTRACT: This talk will give an overview of some of the various PDA platforms and operating systems and their strengths & weaknesses from a developer's point of view. It will show some of the more common development tools and environments for Palm & PPC devices and demonstrate how to write a simple application for both. It finishes with a quick introduction on how to share data from your PDA application with other PC applications.

BIOGRAPHY: Scott joined in Extended Systems in 1993. He is currently a Senior Software Engineer specializing in mobile device software. For the past 5 years he has worked on PDA synchronization software while at the same time trying to perfect his homebrew recipes. Scott holds a BS in Electrical Engineering from Montana State University.

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