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NI's Truchard and Kodosky: Enthusiasm undimmed
Peter Clarke
3/30/2012 1:55 PM EDT
LabView the solution for parallel processing?
The company went public in March 1995 having been private for 19 years. The company continues to provide a broad mix of software and modular hardware to help engineers design and deploy systems for measurement, automation, and embedded applications.
NI's involvement with Apple in the 1980s and 1990s was an inspiration, said Truchard and through those contacts NI absorbed a bit of their way of looking at the world. "We wanted to do for embedded what the PC did for the desktop," said Truchard.
NI has become a global company during a period when large amounts of manufacturing have migrated to southeast Asia. Is that a concern for Truchard. "How can we compete? One way is better tools," said Truchard referencing what his company provides but acknowledging that NI tools and methods are adopted in the east as well as in the west.
Kodosky points out that National Instruments is involved in education programs which are necessary to raise the number of young people fluent in science, technology, engineering and math. "We work on Lego Mindstorm program," he said. LabView offers abstraction and flexibility which allows it go from kindergarten to beam-line control on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Europe.
What is next for NI and LabView. "RF measurements and software defined radio," said Truchard. LabView is great for parallel processing on heterogeneous platforms. We've knocked that out the park," he said.
But don't the dataflow roots of LabView restrict its utility? Kodosky was quick to defend the graphical language. "It's more general than people think. It is a more fundamental model. We have something that is the programming paradigm of the future."
The over-riding impression is that Truchard and Kodosky are as energetic, enthusiastic and full of plans today as they were when they were launching the company 35 years ago, which promises yet more great things for the future.
From left: James Truchard, CEO of National Instruments, Junko Yoshida, Jeff Kodosky, business and technology Fellow at National Instruments, and Mannion. Truchard and Kodosky, who co-founded National Instruments in 1986, were the ACE 2012 Lifetime Achievement winners. Photo: Trish Tunney
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The company went public in March 1995 having been private for 19 years. The company continues to provide a broad mix of software and modular hardware to help engineers design and deploy systems for measurement, automation, and embedded applications.
NI's involvement with Apple in the 1980s and 1990s was an inspiration, said Truchard and through those contacts NI absorbed a bit of their way of looking at the world. "We wanted to do for embedded what the PC did for the desktop," said Truchard.
NI has become a global company during a period when large amounts of manufacturing have migrated to southeast Asia. Is that a concern for Truchard. "How can we compete? One way is better tools," said Truchard referencing what his company provides but acknowledging that NI tools and methods are adopted in the east as well as in the west.
Kodosky points out that National Instruments is involved in education programs which are necessary to raise the number of young people fluent in science, technology, engineering and math. "We work on Lego Mindstorm program," he said. LabView offers abstraction and flexibility which allows it go from kindergarten to beam-line control on the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Europe.
What is next for NI and LabView. "RF measurements and software defined radio," said Truchard. LabView is great for parallel processing on heterogeneous platforms. We've knocked that out the park," he said.
But don't the dataflow roots of LabView restrict its utility? Kodosky was quick to defend the graphical language. "It's more general than people think. It is a more fundamental model. We have something that is the programming paradigm of the future."
The over-riding impression is that Truchard and Kodosky are as energetic, enthusiastic and full of plans today as they were when they were launching the company 35 years ago, which promises yet more great things for the future.
From left: James Truchard, CEO of National Instruments, Junko Yoshida, Jeff Kodosky, business and technology Fellow at National Instruments, and Mannion. Truchard and Kodosky, who co-founded National Instruments in 1986, were the ACE 2012 Lifetime Achievement winners. Photo: Trish Tunney
Related links and articles:
Slideshow: EE Times, EDN honor 2012 ACE Award winners
National Instruments hails latest feats at NIWeek 2011
NI to buy EDA vendor and RF design firm
National Instruments launches fast PXI digitizers
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Fanny
4/6/2012 2:35 PM EDT
Terrific story, powerful technology and one of the nicest companies to work with. Congratulations, Dr. T!
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