Greg Snider is currently a consultant to Hewlett-Packard Laboratories where he investigates nanoelectronic architectures, circuits, compilation and simulation. He also consults for Zeidman Technologies, where he is developing synthesis tools for embedded, real-time systems. Past work includes communications, processor design, medical instrumentation, imaging, networking, operating systems, computer security, memory systems, compilers, hardware and software synthesis, e-services, simulation, and programmable hardware. In the early 90’s, he was the architect and compiler designer of the Teramac simulation system, a defect-tolerant computer built from hundreds of custom field programmable gate arrays.