Various topics discussed at the Game Developers Conference and Embedded Systems Conference are presented. It was discussed that the single, critical, defining feature of embedded software is its intimate relation with the underlying hardware. It was also suggested that security must be built-in during the design phase by anticipating attacks and defining policies that limit their effects. Bill
... [Show full abstract] Beckwith and Joseph Jacob from Objective Interface Systems, and Mark Vanfleet from NSA described 'Security for Safety Critical Distributed Embedded Systems'. One participant suggested that video-games for sex-education classes has entered into an increasing trend.