01 Introduction-ECE
01 Introduction-ECE
Engineering: An Overview
Dr Hien Vo
ECE Department
VGU
Outline
… and components
… and televisions
iPhone X: Overview
Sony 12 MP f/1.8
dual rear camera
Dual battery
Taptic Engine
Audio Loudspeaker
3 Lawrence
1964 Cray 6600
Mflops Livermore
2018 Summit Oak Ridge
~ 20M cores 36 Lawrence
1969 Cray 7600
~ 200,000 Tflops Mflops Livermore
iPhone vs Super-Computer 1969
Michael Bloomberg
Former NY Mayor
Johns Hopkins EE
CEO of Bloomberg LP
Jeff Bezos
Amazon Founder/CEO
Princeton EECS
Numerous Billionaires Too
Larry Page / Sergey Brin
Google Co-Founder
Stanford Computer Engineer/CS
Source: McKinsey Global Institute, “Big Data: The next frontier for innovation, competition, and
productivity,” May 2011.
Interesting Questions…
How to minimize data storage and Compression
communication bandwidth? Communication