Ambric's Technical Advisory Board
The mission of Ambric's Technical Advisory Board is to assist Ambric with the strategic direction of practical, massively-parallel programming models, IC architectures and applications. The board also advises Ambric on product direction and offers insight into technology trends, fit of the technology with new application areas, and potential research collaborations. They also help Ambric establish strong relationships in industry and academic communities.
Robert Colwell, PhD, Member of Ambric Advisory Board
Bob Colwell is an independent consultant and veteran microprocessor architect. Colwell was Chief Architect of Intel's IA32 microprocessors from 1992-2000, and managed the IA32 Arch group in Intel's Hillsboro, Oregon facility. Colwell joined Intel in 1990 as a Senior CPU Architect on the P6 (Pentium Pro) project, and became manager of the Architecture Group two years later. He was named an Intel Fellow in 1996, the highest technical grade at the company. Prior to his work at Intel, Colwell was a CPU architect and hardware designer at VLIW pioneer Multiflow Computer, and had technical roles at Perq and Bell Labs working on the BellMac series of microprocessors. Colwell holds 40+ patents and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006. He is the Perspectives Editor for IEEE Computer Magazine and was the author of the At Random column, as well as the book "Pentium Chronicles: The People, Passion, and Politics Behind Intel's Landmark Chips." Colwell received his BSEE degree from the University of Pittsburgh, and his MSEE and PhD from Carnegie Mellon University.
Stephen Dukes, Member of Ambric Advisory Board
Steve Dukes brings more than 30 years of network architecture and design experience in telecommunications, enterprise, network gaming, and cable. As President and CEO of Imaginary Universes, Dukes is responsible for managing a group advising companies in the development and investment of network technologies focused on delivery of broadband applications and services. He is formerly vice president of MediaOne Labs, vice president of technology for TCI and also served as CEO of MCNS Holdings, responsible for the management and development of the high speed data specifications for cable, and vice president of advanced network development at CableLabs responsible for the development of cable's architecture for two-way communications. He also held management and technical positions with GTE and 3DO. Dukes serves as a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Consumer Electronics Administrative Committee. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and a member of the Society of Cable Telecommunication Engineers (SCTE). He received a BS of Mathematics from the University of Washington.
Gordon Hoffman, Member of Ambric Advisory Board
Gordon Hoffman is managing director of Northwest Technology Ventures and an Ambric seed investor. Gordon has worked in high-tech development for most of his career, spending 15 years in the semiconductor industry and 15 years in electronic-design-automation software. He is founder or co-founder of several companies including Eagle Design Automation, Caedent Corporation, and West & Associates. He has also been with Synopsys, Viewlogic Systems, Mentor Graphics, United Technologies where he created the Microelectronics Center, Mostek, and Texas Instruments. He serves on PSU's CS/EE advisory council, and the PSU Foundation board. Gordon received his BSEE from the Illinois Institute of Technology, and his MSEE from Stanford University.
Serge Leef, Member of Ambric Advisory Board
Serge Leef is general manager of the System-Level Engineering Division at Mentor Graphics, where he oversees the business and technology of next-generation EDA technologies for processor-based design, verification and test. These technologies are used by leading semiconductor and IP companies to serve customers in communications, networking, switching, peripherals, consumer, and multi-media markets. Leef also supervises the development of EDA tools that apply advanced system-level design automation techniques to the challenges associated with functional design of automotive electronics. Previously, Leef was at Silicon Graphics, Microchip, and Intel. He holds a BSEE and MSCS from Arizona State University.
Erik Meijer, PhD, Member of Ambric Advisory Board
Erik Meijer is an architect in the SQL Server group at Microsoft. Meijer is currently working with the C# and Visual Basic teams on language and type-system support for bridging the worlds of object-oriented (CLR), relational (SQL), and hierarchical (XML) data and first class functions. He is currently working on reviving the Mondrian project in the incarnation of Visual Basic for the Cloud. Before joining Microsoft, he was an associate professor at Utrecht University, in the Netherlands, where he worked on advanced scripting languages such as Haskell, XMLambda, and Mondrian, and directed a research project sponsored by Microsoft. Meijer holds a PhD from Nijmegen University.
Steve Sheafor, PhD, Member of Ambric Advisory Board
Steve Sheafor is a consultant and chief technical advisor for VizionWare. Over the past 30 years Steve has amassed an invaluable combination of integrated circuit design and business experience. Steve is a founder of two companies with successful exit strategies: Cornerstone Imaging, a high-resolution graphics company, and Sitera, the original developer of network processors. At Cornerstone, Sheafor also served as the company's CTO and director, and helped lead that company to a successful IPO in 1993. He also combined his leadership duties at Sitera as its CTO until the company's acquisition by Vitesse Semiconductor in 2000 for $750 million. Sheafor is Adjunct Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rice University and was selected as the 2000 Entrepreneur of the Year for Boulder, Colorado. He holds BA and MSEE degrees from Rice, a Ph.D. in EE from Illinois, and an MBA from Santa Clara.
