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Engineering stars come out to Berkeley’s DEAA
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Winners of the Distinguished Engineering Alumni and Outstanding Young Leaders Awards celebrated with Dean Richard Newton at a banquet in Hearst Memorial Mining Building September 24. Clockwise from left are Tom Zhang, John Deng, Newton, Franklin Agardy, Barbara Simons, and Bill Joy.
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There’s nothing typical about these engineers, five pioneers representing the Internet, sanitary and environmental engineering, computer policy, and China’s tech industry. But they do typify the exemplary professionals who hone their skills and shape their careers at Berkeley Engineering.
Franklin Agardy, Bill Joy, Barbara Simons, John Deng, and Tom Zhang are the recipients of the 2005 Distinguished Engineering Alumni Awards (DEAA). The five were honored at the 31st annual DEAA banquet, attended by 150 friends and colleagues in Hearst Memorial Mining Building September 24.
Franklin Agardy (M.S.’58, Ph.D.’63 CE), president of Forensic Management Associates and an expert in water pollution control, has extensive experience in hazardous waste management, environmental planning, and forensic investigation of explosions, fires, and toxins. As a civil engineering professor, he developed San Jose State’s graduate program in sanitary engineering, then joined URS Corporation as a sanitary engineer, becoming president and CEO in 1987. He has written, coauthored, and co-edited seven textbooks.
Bill Joy (M.S.’79 EECS) designed and wrote Berkeley UNIX as a graduate student. The first open-source operating system with built-in communications protocols, Berkeley UNIX became the backbone of the Internet. As chief scientist for Sun Microsystems, Joy was a key designer of such technologies as Solaris, SPARC, and Java. Holder of more than 40 patents, Joy is now a partner at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
Barbara Simons (M.S., Ph.D.’81 EECS) is a former researcher staff member at IBM and an expert on computing technology policy and electronic voting. She was president of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and founder of ACM’s Public Policy Committee. A fellow of ACM and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, she has received multiple awards, including the Alumnus of the Year Award from Berkeley’s Computer Science department. She is writing a book on electronic voting.
John Deng (M.A.’94 Physics, M.A.’97 Economics, Ph.D.’97 EECS) and Tom Zhang (Ph.D.’04 EECS) received this year’s Outstanding Young Leader Award. They are the founders of China’s Vimicro Corporation, which commands 60 percent of the global market for PC camera chips and a large percentage of the Chinese cell phone multimedia chip market. They were recently honored with first prize in the China National Science and Technology Advancement Awards, the highest honor ever awarded to China’s domestic integrated circuits design industry.
Go to www.coe.berkeley.edu/alumni_friends/deaa/ to see a video of the event.
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