A reminder that I'll be hosting a free public talk by Andrew "bunnie" Huang, the legendary reverse engineer who broke the Xbox. Bunnie will speak at my Canada-US Fulbright Chair speaker series at the University of Southern California in LA. In addition to his talents as a reverse engineer (documented in his excellent book Hacking the Xbox), Bunnie is an evangelist for hardware hacking, working to help software people understand how to get their hands dirty with hardware. He is presently working at Chumby, a company he co-founded — Chumby makes an open bean-bag WiFi computer that has small touchscreen.
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.
When: Tuesday, November 21, 7PM
Where: University of Southern California Main Campus, Annenberg School for Communication, Room 207
As always, we'll have audio from the talk up a day or two later.
