August 2005
Friends of the College of Engineering,
In June, while things were a little less hectic here on campus, we took the opportunity to celebrate another milestone in the history of CITRIS, the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society. After more than three years at the helm of our fledgling institute, Director Ruzena Bajcsy has stepped down to return to the EECS faculty. We offered Ruzena a gala farewell and heartfelt thank you in the lobby of the Hearst Memorial Mining Building, with more than 100 associates and friends from campus, the UC system and from industry. UC President Bob Dynes and Berkeley Chancellor Bob Birgeneau were on hand to thank Ruzena and to welcome in-coming director, Professor Shankar Sastry. Under Ruzena's leadership, CITRIS has established itself as an important UC platform for multi-disciplinary, multi-campus research and collaboration with industry. A number of CITRIS-inspired innovations and new technologies are already finding their way into widespread commercial use and are being used to improve the lives of people here in California and throughout the world. You can enjoy the festivities online.
I am very pleased to announce that the College of Engineering is honoring five of its brightest and most successful alumni this year with the Distinguished Engineering Alumni Awards (DEAA). The 2005 DEAA awards will be presented to Franklin J. Agardy (M.S.'68, Ph.D.'83 CE), President of Forensic Management Associates, Inc. of San Mateo; Bill Joy (M.S.'79 EECS), Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers; and Barbara Simons Ph.D.'80 EECS), a researcher, leader, and advocate who has been a major contributor to the national computing community. The Outstanding Young Leader award will be presented jointly to two of our most successful young alumni, John Deng (M.S.'94 Physics, M.S.'97 Economics, Ph.D.'97 EECS) and Tom Zhang (Ph.D.'04 EECS), who together founded Vimicro, Inc., a leading multimedia chip developer based in China. Please join us to celebrate these incredible Berkeley Engineers at a special dinner on Saturday, Sept. 24th in the Hearst Memorial Mining Building. To register, please visit: www.coe.berkeley.edu/deaa/ .
I trust you are having an inspiring summer. As always, very best wishes and Go Bears!
/rich
A. Richard Newton
Dean, College of Engineering and
the Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering
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