Shop Talk

Shop Talks are exclusive gatherings of Intel Fellows who are ready to answer your hard-core questions on any technology topic. That’s right, you get to ask an Intel Fellow any technology question you want. Expect a useful, spin-free answer.

Shop Talk Wednesday, August 20, 2008 2.40 p.m. – 3.30 p.m. Moderator: Knut Grimsrud Intel Fellow, Storage Architecture – Technology and Manufacturing Group

Knut S. Grimsrud leads a research and development group responsible for mainstream and consumer storage interface definition and enabling. He is also responsible for developing new mainstream storage innovations for Intel platforms. Grimsrud and his team currently manage definition and ongoing evolution of the Serial ATA interface as well as the definition and industry enabling for the CE-ATA interface. He is also researching new applications of Flash in Intel platforms.

Grimsrud received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1988, his master’s degree in electrical and computer engineering in 1989, and his PhD in 1993, all from Brigham Young University. Grimsrud holds 23 U.S. patents and has received three Intel Achievement Awards and a Lifetime Achievement Award from Intel IDF. He serves as chairman of the board of directors for the Serial ATA International Organization and chairman of the steering committee of the CE-ATA Working Group.

Shop Talk Thursday, August 21, 2008 11:10 a.m. – noon Moderator: Steve Pawlowski Intel Senior Fellow, Architecture & Planning – Digital Enterprise Group

Stephen S. Pawlowski is an Intel Senior Fellow. He is the Digital Enterprise Group chief technology officer and general manager for Architecture and Planning for Intel Corporation. Pawlowski joined Intel in 1982. He led the design of the first Multibus I Single Board Computer based on the 386 processor. He was a lead architect and designer for Intel’s early desktop PC and high-performance server products, and was the co-architect for Intel’s first P6-based server chipsets. He helped define the system bus interfaces for Intel® P6 family processors, the Pentium® 4 processor and Itanium™ processor. He also created and led the research for Intel’s agile radio architecture for a future generation of wireless products.

Pawlowski graduated from the Oregon Institute of Technology in 1982 with bachelor’s degrees in electrical engineering technology and computer systems engineering technology, and received a master’s degree in computer science and engineering from the Oregon Graduate Institute in 1993. Pawlowski holds 56 patents in the area of system, and microprocessor technologies. He has received three Intel Achievement Awards.

Other Intel Fellows participating in the Shop Talks include:

Ajay Bhatt Intel Fellow, Digital Enterprise Group Chief I/O Architecture	Richard (Rick) Coulson Intel Senior Fellow, Technology and Manufacturing Group, Director, I/O Architecture	Vivek De Intel Fellow, Corporate Technology Group Director, Circuit Technology Research	Albert (Al) Fazio Intel Fellow, Technology and Manufacturing Group Director, Memory Technology Development
Glenn Hinton Intel Fellow, Digital Enterprise Group Director, IA-32 Microarchitecture Development	Shivnandan (Shiv) Kaushik Intel Fellow, Software and Solutions Group Director, Systems Software	Rajesh Kumar Intel Fellow, Digital Enterprise Group Director, Circuit and Low Power Technologies	Eugene (Gene) Meieran Intel Senior Fellow, Corporate Technology Group, Innovation Research
Thomas (Tom) Piazza Intel Fellow, Mobility Group Director, Graphics Integrated Chipset Architecture	Shreekant (Ticky) Thakkar Intel Fellow, Mobility Group Director, Ultra Mobile Group and Mobile Internet Device (MID) Platform Architecture	Brendan Traw Intel Fellow, Digital Home Group Chief Technology Officer, Consumer Electronics, Digital Home Group