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Friday, February 09, 2007

"MEMS: TI's Hornbeck heads list of academy inductees"

The National Academy of Engineering on Friday (Feb. 9) elected 64 new members, including Texas Instruments Fellow Larry Hornbeck for his invention of the digital micromiror device. Also selected were: Jerry Sanders, former chairman of Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (Sunnyvale, Calif.); Stuart Card, a senior research fellow at Xerox PARC (Palo Alto, Calif.); James Truchard, founder of National Instruments Inc., (Austin, Texas); Edwin Chandross, a consultant for Materials Chemistry, LLC, (Murray Hill, N.J.); John Hallquist, president, Livermore Software Technology Corp. (Livermore, Calif.); Leroy Hood, president of the Institute for Systems Biology (Seattle); Paul Horn, senior vice president of research at IBM Corp. (Yorktown Heights, N.Y.); Martin Newell of Adobe Systems Inc. (San Jose, Calif.); Thomas Stephens, group vice president at General Motors Corp. (Pontiac, Mich.).

Text: http://www.eetimes.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=197005010