Patrick Scaglia is director of the Internet and Computing Platforms
Technologies Center at HP Labs. This center is focused on creating
leading-edge hardware and software technologies for large scale
internet data centers, computing platforms, servers and storage
systems and developing the software infrastructure for pervasive
computing, including appliances and mobile systems.
Before joining Hewlett-Packard, Scaglia was Vice President of
Research at Cadence Design Systems, and a founder and director
of Cadence Berkeley Laboratories and Cadence European Laboratories.
Cadence Design Systems provides software technology and comprehensive
consulting and design services for the world’s leading electronics
companies. Under his leadership, the research team provided leading
edge software tools and consulting services to enable the design
of products ranging from microprocessors to embedded software
systems. In addition, he was general manager of the Technology
Incubator, and member of the Strategic Technology Office, where
he pioneered the development of an open source strategy for Cadence.
Previously, Scaglia was vice president of product development
and co-founder of the computer division of the Evans & Sutherland
Computer Corp., where he led a team to develop a parallel Unix
Supercomputer, competing against Cray, Multiflow and Convex. He
also held R&D positions at Matra in Paris, France, and Alcatel,
where he was a key contributor to the development of the Minitel.
Scaglia received his education at the University Louis Pasteur
in Strasbourg, France, where he received a BS, MS and DEA in physics.
He also received the degree of engineering from the Ecole Nationale
Superieure de Physique in Strasbourg.
He served on a number of technical and advisory boards, including
the Board of Directors of PARADES (a research center dedicated
to the architecture of embedded systems, Rome, Italy), the Executive
Board of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center, the Gigascale
Silicon Research Center as well as internet and computer startups.
He his currently on the advisory board and the EECS Department
of the University of California at Berkeley.
