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Which software gets the 'least respect?'
During one of this week's sunny afternoons it was good to see the two Mike's at the Intel Ridgepointe office RPT1-3. Sightings of other humans on cubicle-land is rare in this post-COVID WFH generation....
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Open platforms snapshot - May 2023
From https://github.com/tianocore/edk2-platforms/tree/master/Platform/Intel there are a rich set of platforms for EDKII in the open. Other than emulation platforms like SIMICS or 32-bit IOT Quark,...
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UW PMP, Patents, T-shape, Job ladders
I haven't blogged in a while. Given things in the news like generative AI you'd think I'd dive into thoughts there, especially interesting aspects like the use of probability, with my usual meanderings...
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Co-authors then and now
So I mentioned in my last blog that I could always talk about https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/news/call-action-bolster-uefi-cybersecurity-now. Well, it turns out the UEFI Forum posted a pretty good...
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Deprecation and introduction of interfaces
Specifications may appear to be static codifications set in stone, but they are often evolutionary species. One of the challenges in evolving a specification includes when, if ever, to deprecate...
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October firmware events
Apropos of the 25 year anniversary of the first IBI/EFI/UEFI boot services at week ago, as commemorated at the 20 year milestone in https://vzimmer.blogspot.com/2018/10/...
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i/o, globalization, pqc, ai, oh yes
I talked a bit about the RAID work at Compaq, or the SMART2-SL 'Dazzler' board in my last post http://vzimmer.blogspot.com/2023/10/october-firmware-events.html. Another interesting thing that landed...
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Hacking in the southern hemisphere
Last week I had the opportunity to visit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A3o_Paulo for the Hackers 2 Hackers Conference https://www.h2hc.com.br/en/. I was invited to give a keynote on UEFI...
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"Advances in Platform Firmware 'Beyond BIOS'" - 20 years later.....
A decade has passed since the posting https://vzimmer.blogspot.com/2014/01/advances-in-platform-firmware-beyond.html describing the journey of Tiano...
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27 or Anniversary.Next^12, AI, Runtime
Anniversary True to form, today is my work anniversary. I started Intel on February 24, 1997 This post also builds on my last posting in this vein...
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Sneers, CNAs, licenses, and fuzzing
Let's start off with something I occasionally see in industry, namely 'the grand sneer' mentioned in https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/know-of-the-right-tool-for-the-job/. I sometimes see...
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A legend passes
Sad to see the news about Ross Anderson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ross_J._Anderson...
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500k
500k. An interesting milestone. This figure comes from the Springer-Verlag site https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-1-4842-0070-4. I was asked by a colleague how many of the free Kindle copies...
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Reflecting on my time at a tech company (aka 'Retiring from Intel')
I've queued up some blog drafts over the last couple of months but I haven't been able to generate the energy to finish them. Why? Well, I want to share that I have elected to retire from Intel after...
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Turbulent weather, books, and new jobs
Weather issues https://mynorthwest.com/4010489/cliff-mass-warns-of-powerful-storm-approaching-western-washington/ have impacted the region recently. The power at my home was out for a few days but I...
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33 years in the Panopticon, Books, et al
This is the inaugural blog entry of 2025. I used to try to have at least one posting per month, but the last couple of years have demonstrated something of a slowdown.In lieu of my Anniversary.Next^...
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April showers....
This month has been interesting. The beginning of the month saw Microsoft celebrate its 50th anniversary https://news.microsoft.com/microsoft-50/. Even Linked in last month had the 50th image...
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big money, open source, papers
It was interesting reading the recent article https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/sam-altman-says-meta-tried-and-failed-to-poach-openais-talent-with-100m-offers/. What caught my eye was the mention of...
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early career aspirations
I visited my parents in Houston this summer. As always they had a pile of my possessions which they exhorted me bring back to the Pacific Northwest. In one box I found some old papers, including...
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Full circle
It looks like the bricks-and-mortar Microsoft library in Redmond is closing https://www.geekwire.com/2026/microsoft-campus-library-closes-in-broader-shift-to-ai-powered-digital-learning-experiences/....
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34 Years in the Panopticon: Specifications, Formal Methods, and the AI...
Monday 2/24/2026 marks 34 years since I started working full-time post-undergrad (2/24/1992). Another lap around the sun in what I've come to think of as the long game of systems software. Last year's...
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PlanetNix and 490
I've spent the last few months getting more familiar with Nix. Although "Nix" is an informal verb meaning to cancel, reject, or veto a plan or idea, and the term also functions as a noun representing...
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IPv6 Crosses 50% — Technology Diffusion Takes Longer Than You Think
I noticed the 50% figure on Google's IPv6 stats page https://www.google.com/intl/en/ipv6/statistics.html on 4/16/2026, flagged on Hacker News https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47777894. A milestone...
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Wind Energy and the Long Arc: Cornell Engineer, December 1990
December 1990. I was a senior at Cornell (well, really a junior), and the Cornell Engineer magazine published a piece on wind energy that I was involved with. That issue has been sitting in a drawer —...
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20 years of beyond bios
"Beyond BIOS: Developing with the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface" https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-BIOS-Implementing-Extensible-Interface/dp/0974364908reaches its twenty year anniversary this...
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