Sun's Unconventional Thinkers Contrarian Minds

Wednesday Dec 10, 2008

Eric Arseneau likes to think small. Very small.

"I'm trying to go to as small a machine as possible," says the software engineer.

No problem. That's been the trend in technology, right? Smaller, faster, cheaper. All that must work in his favor.

Not so fast.

I would like to see Java running on something that has 16K of flash memory and a few bytes of RAM," Arseneau explains.

That's a much different frame of reference than someone doing, say, desktop programming.

Arseneau's target? The microcontrollers embedded in all kinds of things -- wrist watches, electric shavers, toys, toasters, greeting cards, environmental sensors. More

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