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Newsmakers:
Berkeley
Engineering alumni in the headlines
Call for DEAA Nominations: Submit by
May 15
The Engineering Alumni Society invites you to submit nominations
for the 2004 Distinguished Engineering Alumni Awards. Candidates
must be Berkeley Engineering alumni and, for the Outstanding Young
Leader Award, 40 years or younger. For more information, go to
www.coe.berkeley.edu/deaa.
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| Armando
Fox |
Armando Fox cited by Scientific
American
Armando Fox (Ph.D. ’98 CS) was recognized by Scientific
American as one of its top 50 Research Leaders of 2003, a
list of top innovators working worldwide in science, engineering,
commerce, and public policy. Now assistant professor of computer
sciences at Stanford, Fox is working on micro-rebooting, a process
that could protect networks from disastrous crashes in individual
servers. He was recognized by the magazine as “a leader
in the growing trend” of incorporating micro-rebooting into
computer network design.
Hill and Horton included in MIT Technology
Review's "Top 100" listing
Jason Hill (B.S. ’98, M.S. ’00, Ph.D. ’03 EECS)
and Mike Horton (B.S. ’94, M.S.’ 95 EECS) have been
named to MIT Technology Review’s “100 Top
Young Innovators” for 2003, the magazine’s annual
list of 100 researchers in technological fields under the age
of 35 who are “poised to make a dramatic impact on our world.”
Hill, who cofounded Dust, Inc., left Berkeley last year to form
his own company, JLH Labs, in Capistrano Beach. He was cited for
writing software that facilitates communication among wireless
sensors. Horton, founder, president, and CEO of Crossbow Technology
of San Jose, was cited for engineering tiny sensors “that
can be spread like crumbs around a battlefield or factory.”
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Jean
Paul Jacob
PHOTO COURTESY OF IBM |
Jean Paul Jacob honored with EECS Leadership
Award
Jean Paul Jacob (M.S. ’65, Ph.D. ’66
EECS) received the Research Leadership Award in Computer Sciences
and Engineering, instituted in 1998 by EECS to recognize exceptional
service to the department. An EECS lecturer since 1971, Jacob
is also manager of external technical relations for IBM Almaden
Research Center in San Jose. He was recognized for his “steadfast
commitment to the betterment” of EECS through his many contributions
as a faculty member, industry liaison, and supporter of student
internship and outreach programs.
Eric Schmidt named top
manager by Business Week
Eric Schmidt (M.S. ’79, Ph.D. ’82 EECS), chairman
and CEO of Google, Inc., was named by Business Week magazine
as one of the 100 best managers of 2003 in its January report,
for which it surveyed its staff of 140 writers and editors in
New York and 21 bureaus worldwide. In just two years, Schmidt
has quintupled the staff of the popular search engine as continuing
company growth warranted. “Analysts think Google could notch
$1 billion in 2003 revenues,” according to the report.
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Arun
Sarin
BILLY HUSTACE PHOTO |
Arun Sarin of Vodafone
honored with UC Trust Award
Arun Sarin (M.S.’78 MSE), CEO of Vodafone Group Plc, the
largest mobile phone company in the world, was honored with the
University of California Trust (UK) Award for distinguished achievement
by a UC affiliate in the UK. Also an alumnus of Haas School of
Business (M.B.A.’78), Sarin was named the Haas Business
Leader of the Year in 2002. He serves on both the College of Engineering
Executive Committee and the Haas Advisory Board. He was appointed
to the top job at Vodafone in July 2002.
Shank to resign from LBNL at year-end
and return to Berkeley faculty
Charles Shank (B.S.’65, M.S.’66, Ph.D.’69) will
resign as director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
at the end of 2004. During his 15-year tenure heading one of the
nation’s top basic research labs, he has overseen a staff
of 4,000 scientists and technicians doing cutting-edge research
in astrophysics, computing, genomics, and nanoscience. He doubled
the facility’s budget from $229 million to nearly $500 million.
Shank will return to Berkeley as a tenured faculty member in physics,
chemistry, and EECS.
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