David Pricer
Chair 1998 Nominations Committee
dpricer@vnet.ibm.com
The Nominating Committee wishes to thank all who voted in the Solid-State Circuits Society’s third annual election. We did not leave you any easy choices! The slate was large and exceptionally well qualified.
I want to personally thank all those who agreed to run. Participating in any election is a small act of bravery. Our Society has been endowed, from its inception, with excellent pool of potential candidates. Some volunteered, others needed a little coaxing.
The office of IEEE Technical Activities, which supervises the mailing, receipt and counting of ballots reports the following candidates have been elected: Gerhard Fettweis, Mark Horowitz, Richard C. Jaeger, Charles G. Sodini, Neil Weste
All five will take office beginning January 1, 1999 to serve for period of three years as your representatives. Their personal photographs appear nearby for easy identification. Please contact them directly with your ideas and comments about Society matters.
This election completes our transition to a Society with a fully elected AdCom. It looks like a promising beginning.
GERHARD FETTWEIS
(S’84-M’90-SM’98) received his M.Sc./Dipl.-Ing. and Ph.D. degrees in
electrical engineering from the Aachen University of Technology (RWTH), Germany, in 1986
and 1990, respectively.
From 1990 to 1991 he was a Visiting Scientist at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San Jose, CA, working on signal processing for disk drives. From 1991 until 1994 he was a Scientist with TCSI, Berkeley, CA, responsible for signal processor developments for mobile phones.
Since September 1994, he has held the Mannesmann Mobilfunk Chair for Mobile Communications Systems at the Dresden University of Technology, Germany.
Between 1991-1996 he was the IEEE Communications Society (ComSoc) representative on the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Council, since 1997 the SSC Society’s Administrative Committee. Since 1998 he has been an elected member of the IEEE ComSoc Board of Governors. He has been active as a member of ComSoc committees and as an organizer of numerous Globecom and ICC sessions, as well as IEEE workshops. He has been an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems Part II, and is now Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communication, Wireless Series.
Gerhard Fettweis is the speaker of the German NSF center Deutsche Forschungs-Gemeinschaft (DFG) on System Design Automation, Dresden and on the German wireless ATM research program Integrated Broadband Mobile System (IBMS). He has acted as an advising expert to the wireless program of Advanced Communication Technologies and Services (ACTS) of the European Union.
MARK HOROWITZ
(S’77-M’83-SM’95) received his B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical
engineering from MIT in 1978, and his Ph.D. in the same field from Stanford in 1984. Since
September 1984, he has been working in the Computer Systems Laboratory at Stanford where
he is currently the Director and Yahoo! Founders Professor of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Science.
He was the recipient of a 1985 Presidential Young Investigator Award, an IBM Faculty Development Award and the 1993 ISSCC Best Paper Award.
Dr. Horowitz’s research area is in digital design. He has led a number of processor design projects at Stanford including MIPS-X, one of the first processors to include an on-chip instruction cache, and TORCH, a statically-scheduled, superscalar processor. He has also worked in a number of other chip design areas including high-speed memory design, high bandwidth interfaces, and fast floating points. In 1990 he took leave from Stanford to help start Rambus Inc., a company designing high-bandwidth memory interface technology. His current research includes multiprocessor design, low-power circuits, memory design, and processor architecture.
RICHARD C. JAEGER
(S’68-M’69-SM’78-F’86). He received his B.S. and M.E. degrees in
electrical engineering in 1966, and his Ph.D. in 1969, all from the University of Florida,
Gainesville. In 1969 he began his technical career with the IBM Corporation. In 1979 he
joined Auburn University where he is now Distinguished University Professor in Electrical
Engineering and Director of the Alabama Microelectronics Science and Technology Center. He
has published over 200 technical papers and articles and three textbooks and was elected
Fellow of the IEEE in 1986.
Dr. Jaeger has been an active leader in the solid-state circuits community for many years. He was a member of IEEE Solid-State Circuits Council from 1984-1991, serving the last two years as Council President. He is now an ex-officio member of the SSCS AdCom, having just completed a three-year term as Editor of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits. He was Program Chairman for the 1993 International Solid-State Circuits Conference and Chairman of the 1990 VLSI Circuits Symposium. From 1980 to 1982 he served as Founding Editor of IEEE Micro Magazine.
CHARLES G. SODINI
(S’80-M’82-SM’90-F’95). He received his B.S.E.E. degree from Purdue
University, Lafayette, IN, in 1974 and his M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the University
of California, Berkeley in 1981 and 1982, respectively.
He was a member of the technical staff at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories from 1974 to 1982 where he worked on the design of MOS memory and later the development of MOS devices with very thin gate dielectrics. He joined the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, in 1983, where he is currently a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. His research interests are focused on integrated circuit and system design with emphasis on analog, RF and memory circuits and systems. Along with Prof. Roger T. Howe, he is a coauthor of an undergraduate text on integrated circuits and devices entitled "Microelectronics: An Integrated Approach."
Dr. Sodini held the Analog Devices Career Development Professorship of MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and was awarded the IBM Faculty Development Award from 1985 to 1987.
He has served on a variety of IEEE conference committees including the International Electron Devices Meeting where he was 1989 General Chairman. He was Technical Program Co-Chairman of the 1992 Symposium on VLSI Circuits and the 1993-1994 Co-Chairman of the Symposium. He has served on the Electron Devices Society Administrative Committee from 1988-1994 and is currently the Meetings Committee Chairman for the Solid- State Circuits Society.
NEIL WESTE
(S’76-M’77-SM’91-F’96) obtained his B.Sc., B.E. and Ph.D. degrees from
the University of Adelaide, South Australia in 1974, 1975 and 1978, respectively. He
commenced work at AT&T Bell Labs in 1977. He took a sabbatical in 1981-1982,
concurrently holding positions at Duke University, UNC (Chapel Hill) and MCNC. He returned
to Bell Labs and subsequently joined Symbolics Inc in Cambridge, MA. In 1989 he co-founded
TLW Inc., a VLSI engineering company. He returned to Australia in 1995 as Professor of
Microelectronic Systems at Macquarie University.
His area of expertise is the design of integrated circuits. He is coauthor of a popular text on CMOS VLSI design and has coauthored over 50 journal and conference papers. Recently he co-founded a company, Radiata Inc. active in the area of high-speed wireless LANs.
He has served in various professional activities throughout his career and currently is a member on the CICC, DAC, ARVLSI, ASPDAC, and APCCAS technical committees. He has been Guest Editor for two special issues of the IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits and has served as a reviewer for that journal and various other IEEE journals and conferences.
The fice newly elected AdCom members will take their places
Jan. 1, 1999 with the 10 other AdCom members elected in
previous years. Here are the current members:
top row l-r: Rudy van de Plassche, Asad Abidi, Dave Hodges,
Eric Vittoz, Willy Sansen, front row l-r: Chris Mangelsdorf,
Dick Hester, Bruce Wooley, Nicky Lu. Missing is Toshiaki Masuhara.