Sam Siewert

Personal Info Page:

My most recently read favorite books are:

1. The Singularity is Near, by Ray Kurzweil
2. Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future, by Gregory Stock
3. Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond
4. The World Is Flat, by Thomas Friedman
5. The Hydrogen Economy: The Creation of the Worldwide Energy Web and the Redistribution of Power on Earth, by Jeremy Rifkin

I was born in Berkeley California and grew up there mostly, but I have lived in: the San Francisco Bay Area, London, Portland Oregon, Houston Texas, South Bend IN (outside Chicago), and in Boulder Colorado.

Career Summary:

I currently work at Atrato Inc. on embedded Linux for a custom IO controller and helped start the Software team as SW/FW engineer #1.

Research Interests include:

1. Autonomic Computing Architectures - Self-Configuring, Healing, Optimizing, Protecting Systems
2. Real-Time Embedded Systems - Continuous Media (digital video and audio)
3. SoC ASIC Performance and HW/SW Co-design

The best job I ever had was as a lifeguard in high school - never a bad day at the pool!!

The worst job I ever had was dumping 2,000 bottles of bad salad dressing into toxic waste drums (I still hate ranch dressing).

Beware of monoliths ...