IDF graffiti: best of the boards

Darien Graham-Smith — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 21:30:59 +0000

As I mentioned in my last post, the venue for last week’s Intel Developer Forum was dotted around with whiteboards, on which delegates were invited to share their visions of the future. This may have seemed like an invitation to disaster, but by the end of the conference there were some quite entertaining (and occasionally insightful) contributions on display.

Here – with apologies for the ropey photography – are some of my favourites…

Gelsinger’s ghost hovers over IDF

Darien Graham-Smith — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:03:37 +0000

The European anti-trust case isn’t the only controversy hanging over this year’s IDF. The sudden departure of well-liked senior VP Pat Gelsinger last week, after 30 years with Intel and with no real explanation, has been the subject of much gossip among delegates – and a grassroots graffiti campaign.

Now, before you imagine that IDF has been overrun by vandals, let me explain that Intel has installed whiteboards all around the conference centre, and has invited attendees to use them to share their visions of the future. It’s on these boards that the graffiti have been appearing. Some visitors have obligingly written up their hopes for new technology: a few arty types have even provided illustrations.But amid these contributions, there’s also been a spate of comments, on boards all over the centre, simply demanding: “Where’s Pat?” It’s a bit of mischief, but it also makes a serious point about corporate politics.

Predictably, Intel’s stewards have been erasing such scrawls wherever they’ve found them (adding to the whiff of Stalinist purge surrounding his departure). But my hat is off to one enterprising scribbler who correctly realised that he could sneak his protest past the censors by simply writing it in the international language of engineering…

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IDF graffiti: best of the boards

Gelsinger’s ghost hovers over IDF