Allen Lau
I spent Saturday morning in Hong Kong as a speaker at the Canadian Engineering Asia Pacific Conference, a gathering that felt historic. Not one, not two, but eight deans of Canadian engineering. In the same room, on the same program, in Asia. The conference materials called it a “historic...
Allen Lau
Edge AI has been a key pillar of our Advanced Computing Hardware investments and a core part of our thesis for a long time. It is the same arc I wrote about in The Next Data Centre: Your Phone a while ago. We need new architectures to meet the speed, security, and energy demands of the next...
Allen Lau
On Friday, October 17, 2025, Chancellor Kathleen Taylor at York University conferred on Eva Lau the degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa. I purposely avoided hearing her practice so I could experience it on stage for the first time, just like everyone else in the audience.It turned out to...
Allen Lau
At most dinners, introductions start with your name and maybe what you do. At this one, we began with:“Second edition.”“Fourth edition.” Why? Because this was our “School of Fish – Legends of Semiconductors” dinner, hosted at our home, where your relationship with the Sedra & Smith...
Allen Lau
I’d like to extend my heartfelt congratulations to Richard Sutton, co-founder of Openmind Research Institute and a pioneer in Reinforcement Learning, for being honoured with the 2024 Turing Award—often described as the “Nobel Prize of Computing.” This accolade reflects his groundbreaking...
Allen Lau
Who are the top 50 VCs in Canada? Two Small Fish Ventures is one of them! At Two Small Fish Ventures, we are deeply honoured to be named among Canada’s top 50 venture capital firms in this year’s edition of The 50 — the annual guide produced by the Canadian Venture Capital & Private Equity...