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National Academy
of Engineering honors eight alumni
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Butler
Lampson will share the prestigious Charles Stark Draper Prize,
a $500,000 annual award, with Alan Kay, Robert Taylor, and
Charles Thacker, described by the Academy as “the indispensable
core of an amazing group of engineering minds that redefined
the nature and purpose of computing.”
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Eight alumni of Berkeley Engineering were recognized by the National
Academy of Engineering this year when new members were announced
and the Academy gave its highest honor—the Charles Stark
Draper Prize—to the four-man team that developed the first
networked PC.
Butler Lampson (Ph.D.’67 EECS) was among
the four individuals to receive the Draper Prize. The NAE recognized
their “vision, conception, and development of the principles
for, and their effective integration in, the world’s first
practical networked personal computers.” Lampson is a distinguished
engineer at Microsoft Corp and an adjunct professor of computer
science and electrical engineering at MIT.
Also recognized were seven alums among the 78 new members elected
to the Academy, bringing total U.S. membership to 2,174. New 2004
members include:
Pradman Kaul (B.S., M.S.’68 EECS), chairman
and CEO of Hughes Network Systems, Germantown, Maryland, for leadership
in developing satellite communication networks. Kaul received
the College’s Distinguished Engineering Alumnus Award in
1999.
Chien-Fu “Jeff” Wu (Ph.D.’76
Engineering Statistics), Coca Cola Professor at Georgia Institute
of Technology, for conceiving and building modern systems of experimental
design based on contemporary methods for parameter estimating
to provide quality improvements.
Kaspar William (Ph.D.’69 CE), professor
of civil engineering, University of Colorado at Boulder, for contributions
to constitutive modeling and computational failure analysis of
concrete and quasi-brittle materials and structures.
Darsh Wasan (Ph.D.’65 ChemE), Motorola
Chair Professor of Chemical Engineering and vice president, Illinois
Institute of Technology, Chicago, for pioneering research, inspirational
teaching, and the development of novel technology in colloidal
processing and interfacial rheology.
George Tchobanoglous (M.S.’60 CE), professor
emeritus at UC Davis, for contributions to education, practice,
and public service in the field of environmental engineering.
Denny Parker (B.S.’65, M.S.’66, Ph.D.’70
CE), senior vice president, Brown and Caldwell, Walnut Creek,
for significant advances in the scientific understanding, engineering
development, and design of chemical, physical, and biological
processes for treating wastewater.
Kwadwo Osseo-Asare (B.S.’70, M.S.’72,
Ph.D.’75 MSE), professor of metallurgy and geo-environmental
engineering at Pennsylvania State University, for contributions
to the fundamental understanding of interfacial phenomena in leaching
and solvent extraction.
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