Alan DuBoff, Embedded Linux, turning ideas into products, and why Linux is tossing the embedded space on it's ear

Alan DuBoff worked on the Kerbango Internet Radio, which was an early adopter of Embedded Linux. Alan will show the Kerbango radio, open it up and explain the components designed into it, and what it takes to turn ideas into real products. The Kerbango radio received a Best Innovation award at the 2001 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, receiving almost as quick of a death from the parent company who acquired it. Understand why this was such a controversial product for the industry. Selecting Linux was a much more difficult choice 9 years ago than it is today. Linux is really leaving the embedded space tossed on it's ear. There are lots of devices coming to market and being developed which run Embedded Linux. This is truly one of the most exciting areas of the high tech industry, and certainly for the Linux community as a whole. Learn some about the roots of Linux in the embedded space, how it has been evolving, and what still plagues it.

Alan has also worked on set-top boxes, cell phones, and other embedded devices with Linux and other embedded systems. He has interfaced computers with satellite dishes, jukeboxes, touch screens, and other widgets. He has also worked on systems involving systems programming, graphics, systems programming, UI, speech recognition, IVR, and more. He is currently working for Sun Microsystems.

Presentation Slides

The slides for the meeting are available in OpenOffice.org Impress (OpenDocument) and PDF (Adobe Acrobat) formats.
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