Sehat Sutardja, Make Us Proud

By : Bara Iman Prasetyanto

Sehat Sutardja, maybe some Indonesian didn’t know who he is. But, in U.S, who doesn't know him ? Sehat is a one of success immigrant in U.S, he emigrated to the U.S. when he was 19 years old. Sehat Sutardja, his wife, and his brother started Marvell Technology Group a decade ago with the crazy idea of entering a semiconductor niche already crowded by two dozen competitors. Big ones, in fact, like Texas Instruments (ticker: TXN), STMicroelectronics (STM) and National Semiconductor (NSM).

As co-founder of Marvell Technology Group Ltd., Dr. Sutardja has served as President, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Chairman of its Board of Directors since its inception and as Chairman of the Board since 2003. In addition, he serves as President, Chief Executive Officer, and as a Director of Marvell’s U.S. operating subsidiary, Marvell Semiconductor, Inc. While remaining deeply involved in the daily challenges of running a global growth company, Dr. Sutardja participates heavily in Marvell’s engineering and marketing efforts across analog, video processor, and microprocessor design while offering input across all of the company’s other product lines.

If you look inside an e-reader, game console, Blu-ray player, TV, or smartphone and odds are you’ll find a cluster of chips that designed by Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Marvell chip made ​​very easily found on the Cisco switch, Apple iPod, Xbox 360 or on disk drive products other large companies. Working closely with Intel, Marvell seems more intense and can be aligned with Qualcomm, Freescale Semiconductor and TI.

Sehat Sutardja

Who knows that in just 10 years, Dr.Sutardja can lead Marvell that has 1800 employees and transformed into worth billions dollars company. Based on the success and experience, Sehat giva an advice to his students:

"Learn as much as possible, about the software, biology, advanced physics, all things. Knowing the type of knowledge alone is not enough. Many people stop learning when they want to become an entrepreneur. That is the biggest mistake there. "

Course : Software Engineering Assignment

Lecturer : Prof. Dr. Ir. Riri Fitri Sari M.Sc, MM

Programming and Social Network

Programming and Social Network

by Bara Iman Prasetyanto

The ability of social network which allows any person or community connected to each other makes the development of social networks has increased rapidly. This function give us a chance to interact with another people that we have never met before. With Social network we are also able to explore a variety of programming language.

It is very hard to learn programming only with text book or article without no one who will guide us. With social network we can learn directly to the experts even though we are in different places. In addition, we also can make an application directly in social networks using a programming language.

Facebook is one of a social network that provides how to create an application using so many programming languages, such as php. Besides php, there are many more programming languages ​​that can be applied within Facebook, we can also learn sql to the database, html to create web pages, and flash to make various applications or games that can be uploaded for distribution through facebook.

Not only Facebook, it is so many forum and mailing list which can give us so many knowledge about programming. We can give personal opinion about some problem and we can ask any problem about programming. We can share that problem to get an answer from many people.

So, It is a good choice if we choose social networks to helps us learn about programming language. We can ask any problem from the expert and we can make some application that so many people used in social network.

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