Next Tuesday, November 21 at LA's University of Southern California, I'll host a free speech by Andrew "bunnie" Huang, the legendary reverse-engineer who broke the Xbox. Bunnie is an inspirational speaker on reverse engineering and hardware hacking, and his acclaimed book, Hacking the Xbox is a veritable technical manifesto on the subject.
Bunnie's latest act is founding a company called Chumby, which produces a free and wide-open "bean-bag computer" that comes with WiFi and a little color display, and the plans to reproduce any or all of it, from the flat-patterns for the bean-bag fabric skin to the source-code for the operating system. The device can subscribe to cool hacks, auto-updating itself to add great new features invented by other users.
Bunnie's talk is part of my Fulbright Chair lecture series at USC. It's on from 7PM-9PM on Tuesday, Nov 21, at the Annenberg School on the USC campus, room 207. Hope to see you there! As always, we'll be podcasting the talk afterward.
Andrew "bunnie" Huang is a nocturnal hacker and the hardware lead; his responsibilities include the architecture, design and production of chumby's electronics, as well as writing drivers for and maintaining the Linux kernel on the chumby. With a PhD in EE garnered from MIT in 2002, he has completed several major projects, ranging from hacking the Xbox (and writing the eponymous book), to designing the world's first fully-integrated photonic-silicon chips running at 10 Gbps with Luxtera, Inc., to building some of the first prototype hardware for silicon nanowire device research with Caltech. bunnie has also participated in the design of 802.11b/Bluetooth transceivers (with Mobilian), graphics chips (with SGI), digital cinema CODECs (with Qualcomm), and autonomous robotic submarines (with MIT ORCA/AUVSI). He is also responsible for the un-design of many security systems, with an appetite for the challenge of digesting silicon-based hardware security. bunnie is also a contributing writer for MAKE magazine and a member of their technical advisory board.
