Welcome to the official blog of the 56th Design Automation Conference. I’m the general chair this year, which means that it’s my job to write a blog post. There are some other duties involved, I’ve been told, but we’ll start with a blog post. You’ll hear more about and from the DAC committee members in future posts, but suffice to say for now we have assembled a great group of people from industry and academia. You can see more at this link https://dac.com/committees/executive
Fifty-six is a lot of DACs. I’ve been attending for roughly half of that time, which shows how I developed an interest in design automation while in elementary school. But enough with preliminaries. The question that you, as a potential attendee of DAC 2019, might have is “what’s the point – why should I bother attending DAC?” The answer boils down to human interaction.
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