Judging and Awards Timeline

Call for Nominations: October 1, 2007 – January 25, 2008
Submissions are accepted October 1, 2007 – January 25, 2007 for the fourth Annual Creativity
in Electronics (ACE) Awards presented in nine categories. Entries can be made on the EE Times ACE Awards site, or the form can be printed and mailed to EE Times – see the Rules page
for more details.

Finalists and Ultimate Products of Year Finalists Announced: March 7, 2008
On February 15, 2008, five finalists in each of the nine nomination-based categories will be announced by the editors of EE Times. A prestigious panel of judges comprised of the
leading voices of academia, industry and Wall Street executives will evaluate the finalists.
The judges will select a winner in each of seven categories.

2008 EE Times ACE Judging Panel

Gordon Bell Senior Researcher Microsoft Research	Lucio Lanza Managing Director Lanzatech Ventures
Jeff Bier President and Co-Founder Berkeley Design Technology, Inc. (BDTI)	John Mashey Board of Directors Computer History Museum
Larry Boucher President and CEO Alacritech	Girish Mhatre Principal TargetGroups LLC
Wilf Corrigan Chairman of the Board LSI Logic	Martin Reynolds Dataquest
Lew Counts Fellow Emeritus ADI	George M. Scalise President Semiconductor Industry Association
William Dally Chairman Computer Science Dept. Stanford University	Naveed Sherwani President & CEO Open Silicon
Erach Desai Principal America’s Growth Capital in Boston	William P. Tai General Partner Charles River Ventures
Gene A. Frantz Principal Fellow Texas Instruments, Inc.	Nick Tredennick Editor Gilder Technology Report
Phil Hester CTO AMD

Reader-selected Ultimate Products of the Year Awards will also be announced on
March 7, 2008 for significant products introduced in the last 12 months in seven categories including Analog, Processor/Memory, IP&E, Logic Interface & Programmable Logic, Power, RF/Microwave and Test/Measurement.

Winners Announced at EE Times ACE Awards Gala: April 15, 2008
The honors will be presented at the EE Times ACE Awards Gala on April 15, 2008,
as part of the Embedded Systems Conference Silicon Valley, the largest electronic
systems design event in North America. The gala event will take place at Fairmont Hotel
San Jose, with a headlining comedic performance.