December 2003
Friends of the College of Engineering,
I am pleased to announce that two Berkeley Engineers have been
named to Scientific American's 2003 "Top 50 Technology Leaders" --
our Professor David Culler and our alumnus Armando
Fox '98 (both
EECS). David was cited in the communications category for his
work field-testing wireless sensor networks for environmental
and security applications. We recently featured some of David's
work in Lab
Notes and Forefront. Armando was cited for his leadership
in developing cutting-edge software that protects networks from
disastrous crashes.
As always our students and former students continue to make a
mark on the world. I am pleased to announce that at age 31, Tejal
Desai (BioE '98) is not only a celebrated professor in Boston
University's BioE department, but has been recognized by Popular
Science magazine for her work in diabetes, drug delivery,
and artificial blood vessel research. The magazine named her
one
of this year's "Brilliant
Ten."
This month's issue of MIT's Technology
Review has an interesting
article in the growth of the number of patents issued to leading
U.S. universities.
To maximize the impact of our research in the College, often
the best thing to do is to publish the work as widely as we can.
In other circumstances, maximizing impact does require us to
protect and license our work via patent and copyright and we
are very active in this regard as well. Though the Technology
Review article does not list Berkeley or the College separately
from the UC system, it is noteworthy that UC stands at number
one in the article's "Technological Strength Score," almost
a factor of two ahead of MIT, Stanford, and Caltech.
Finally, it
is with great sadness that I announce the passing of Tung-Yen
(T.Y.) Lin (CE '33), one of the greatest civil
engineers of our day. T.Y. achieved worldwide recognition
for projects
such as San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center, but also
for his visionary ideas, including his "Peace Bridge" across
the Bering Strait between Alaska and Siberia and his design
for a bridge to span the Strait of Gibraltar. He passed away
at home
on November 16 at age 91. For more about T.Y.'s incredible
life and career, please read about him in this issue of Lab
Notes.
Best wishes from the College and very Happy Holidays,
/rich
A. Richard Newton
Dean, College of Engineering and
the Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering
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