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EDITORIAL The Message of Nuremberg
It might be presumptuous to think that a trade show can send a message, but it is hard to resist hearing one sometimes. Here in this charming city, which has been a center of trade and craftsmanship since the Middle Ages, the home of artist Albrecht Dürer, the ceremonial center of the Holy Roman Empire, the place where the world’s first pocket watch was handcrafted, where Germany’s first railroad was built in 1835, one does get a sense of the continuity of commerce and enterprise and pride in workmanship and quality. That sense has continued to this day with Nuremberg being the center of a wide variety of trade fairs, ranging from the world’s largest toy fair to the present Embedded World show, which has become the largest and most important embedded systems event in the world.

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