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Biography: Lewis Terman received the B.S. in Physics and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in EE from Stanford in 1956, 1958, and 1961 respectively. He joined the IBM Research Division in 1961, where he worked on solid-state circuits, semiconductor technology, memory design and technology, digital and analog circuits, and processor design. He did two tours of duty on the Research Division technical planning staff, 1979-1980 and 1991-1993. He was manager and senior manager of groups working in MOS logic and memory design and technology, and was involved in a number of programs leading to products. He received nine major IBM technical awards, including three Corporate awards. He was elected to the IBM Academy of Technology in 1991, and served as president in 2001-2003. He became Associate Director, IBM Research Systems Department in 2003, and retired in 2006. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering. IEEE Activities– (S’58-M’61-SM’74-F’75-LF’97) OFFICES: IEEE Board of Directors, 2001, 2004-05; Division I Director, 2004-05. Lewis Terman has a background too extensive to publish here. More on his contributions can be found at:
http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/about/execs/index.html#terman.