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Technical Advisory Board

Movidius's Technical Advisory Board (TAB) under the chairmanship of Prof. Mike Flynn of Stanford University, brings together an elite multi-disciplinary group of expert advisors on which Movidius can draw for its strategic direction.  TAB members are a healthy mix of career academics, entrepreneurs and technologists.  The group brings together internationally recognized leaders in processor architecture, 3D computer graphics, game physics, compilers, audio and video signal processing from the US and Europe meeting once per quarter for exchanges and debate on market evolution, technology and new product plans.  The members of the TAB are:

Michael J. Flynn

Michael J Flynn received his BS from Manhattan College, MS from Syracuse University, PhD from Purdue University. He began his engineering career at IBM as a designer of mainframe computers. He became Professor of Electrical Engineering at Stanford in 1975 where he set up the Stanford Architecture and Arithmetic group. He retired from Stanford in 1999. Some of his best-known work includes the development of the now familiar stream outline of computer organization (SIMD, etc.). For more than 30 years this has served as the fundamental formal taxonomy of parallel computers. In 1970 he co-authored the first detailed discussion of techniques for the simultaneous execution of multiple instructions, now called super scalar design. In the early 1970s Prof. Flynn founded both of the specialist organizations on Computer Architecture: the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Computer Architecture and the ACM's SIGARCH.

Prof. Flynn was the 1992 recipient of the ACM/IEEE Eckert-Mauchley Award for his technical contributions to computer and digital systems architecture. He was the 1995 recipient of the IEEE-CS Harry Goode Memorial Award in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the design and classification of computer architecture. In 1998 he received the Tesla Medal from the International Tesla Society (Belgrade), and an honorary Doctor of Science from Trinity College (University of Dublin), Ireland. He is the author of five books and over 300 technical papers. He is a fellow of both the IEEE and ACM.

David Moloney - Chief Technology Officer

David Moloney has worked for over 20 years in the semiconductor industry since qualifying with a BEng from DCU in 1985. He has a wealth of international experience having worked for Infineon (Siemens Semiconductor Division) in Munich for 5 years and SGS- Thomson Microelectronics (STM) in Milan for 4 years respectively. In 1994 he returned from STM to lead the engineering team for the first product development at Parthus Technologies where he was a key member of the management team and where he spearheaded the development of the Parthus Bluetooth technology. David left Parthus in 2003 to work towards his PhD in Trinity College Dublin and as an independent consultant for Frontier Silicon and Dublin City University. David is inventor/co-inventor of 17 issued US patents, with additional patents pending and is the author of 9 conference and 8 journal papers.

Dr. David Gregg

Dr. David Gregg is a senior lecturer in the Department of Computer Science, Trinity College Dublin. In 2001 he completed a doctorate in Computer Science at the Technische Universitaet in Vienna, Austria, on the topic of compiling for advanced instruction level parallel architectures. His current research deals with compilers, program optimization and computer architecture, with a particular focus on optimizations for multi-core architectures. Dr Gregg has published extensively in the areas of compilers and architecture, and is involved in the organization of some of the leading international conferences. Alone and with others he has attracted research funding of more than 1.5M euro from government and industry sponsors. He has supervised three PhD and five research MSc students to completion, and currently supervises six PhD students. In May 2007 he was elected a Fellow of Trinity College Dublin in recognition of his research achievements.

Conor McAuliffe

Conor McAuliffe has been involved in the semiconductor industry for 21 years. After graduating from NUI Galway in 1987 with a BE in Electronic Engineering he joined Analog Devices in Limerick where he worked for 7 years as an analog IC design engineer working on a range of products including data converters and other mixed signal products targeting such applications as video, HDD (hard-disk drive) and cellular. He left ADI in 1994 to join Parthus Technologies where he worked primarily on products for HDD and tape-drive applications and prior to leaving Parthus he was the Technical Director in their mixed-signal design group. In 2003 Conor co-founded Silansys Technologies, a mixed signal design services company. In 2005 Silansys was acquired by Frontier Silicon Ltd, a UK company focused on designing silicon and module solutions for the Digital Audio Broadcast (DAB) radio market and Conor was most recently employed by Frontier Silicon as a System Architect focused on their next generation solutions for the growing streaming multi-media market.

Ville Miettinen

Ville Miettinen was the co-founder and CTO of Hybrid Graphics, a pioneering computer graphics technology company from Finland established in 1994. Ville designed and was the lead programmer on several of Hybrid's main products. Later he concentrated on technology roadmaps and industry-wide standardization of mobile graphics technologies such as OpenGL ES, OpenVG, OpenKODE and various JSRs (184,239,297). Hybrid's 2D and 3D graphics technologies are used by phone manufacturers such as Nokia, Samsung and Ericsson, automotive manufacturers, and various games studios. Hybrid was acquired by NVIDIA in 2006 and became NVIDIA Finland.

In 2008 Ville co-founded a new venture, Lots, that concentrates on early-stage investment for graphics and media technology startups. He also serves on the boards or advisory boards of various software and semiconductor companies. Ville has published several conference and journal papers in computer graphics. He has co-authored two books about graphics, is the chairman of ACM SIGGRAPH's Helsinki Chapter, and lectures at various universities and conferences. Ville's areas of specialization include mobile graphics standards, graphics hardware, low-level code optimization, and dynamic compilers.

Steve Collins

Steve is a game technologist and entrepreneur focussed on the research and development of technologies targetting video game production. He is currently co-founder and CTO of New Game Technologies, an Irish venture which develops solutions for next generation game development. He is also an adjunct Senior Lecturer in Computer Science in Trinity College Dublin.  He previously co-founded Havok, the leading real-time physics and animation solution provider to the game industry.

He has also created the TCD MSc Programme in Interactive Entertainment Technology and co-founded the Trinity College ISG Reseach Group (now called the GV2 Group), dedicated to research into computer graphics and animation.

Dr. Anil Kokaram

Dr. Anil Kokaram is an Associate Professor and Fellow of Trinity College Dublin, and an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions in Image Processing. Together with three colleagues from The Foundry, he was awarded an Academy Award for Science and Engineering in 2007. He gained the Ph.D from Cambridge University, UK, in 1993. Up till 1998 he was a Research Associate at the Signal Processing Group of the Cambridge University Engineering Dept. and Fellow of Churchill College. In 1998 he moved to a Lectureship at the Electronic and Electrical Engineering Department in Trinity College Dublin, Ireland. He is group leader of the Sigmedia Group there. His research work is mainly concerned with Digital Image Sequence Processing and especially Numerical Bayesian Inference, Motion Estimation, Content Based Image Retrieval (particularly sports content) and Motion Picture Restoration. He has published more than 100 papers in this general area of picture processing. His work in motion picture restoration is well known and he published the only book on the subject in 1998 with Springer Verlag (Motion Picture Restoration). In the last ten years he has worked with many European Laboratories on various EU Research Projects including AURORA, BRAVA, MOUMIR, MUSCLE, PRESTOSPACE, AXIOM; all dealing with video information retrieval and motion picture restoration.  He has consulted widely for industry including for Daimler Benz, Stuttgart and Cambridge Consultants, UK. It was through the AURORA project during 1994-1998 that he met with Bill Collis and was eventually involved with consulting for the Foundry since 2000.  Dr. Kokaram is director of GreenParrotPictures, a small IP company building software cores to enable motion picture restoration and picture conditioning for the broadcast industry. He is also CTO of eMotion, a company exploiting IP in motion estimation to create end user products for the film and digital television industry.

Owen Drumm

Owen Drumm has worked at the interface of audio and technology for most of his life, moving fluidly between practice and theory. In addition to his own research and freelance work, he currently teaches on the MPhil in Music and Media Technologies, Trinity College Dublin.  As well as designing state-of-the-art digital mixing desks and audio processing software he has collaborated with many major recording artists such as Def Leppard and Enya.  Owen founded and runs Rapt Audio and Owen Drumm Designs.

Martin J. O’Riordain

Martin O’Riordan has a 1983 degree in Computer Science from TCD, majoring in graphics and VLSI design.  His career has seen him working in both the realms of computer hardware and software design.  In the mid 1980’s he became one of the earliest pioneers of the C++ programming language, developing the first commercial implementations of that language with Glockenspiel before moving to Microsoft to develop the C++ compiler for them.  An ardent supporter of standardisation, Martin worked for 15 years with ISO standards, initially on C++ and later as the convenor for the NSAI working group shadowing the SC22 standards.

Other roles have seen him in the area of distributed programming tools with Iona Technologies; developing custom processors for the networking and communications IP space with Silaria; a wide range of contracts in network hardware and mass storage systems and most recently in the Digital Cryptography and Identity Management space with Cybertrust (now Verizon Business).