Carlo Heinrich Séquin (born October 30, 1941) is a
professor of
Computer Science at the
University of California,
Berkeley in the United States.
Séquin is recognized as one of the pioneers in
processor design. Séquin has worked with
computer graphics,
geometric modelling, and on the development of
computer-aided design
Computer-aided design (CAD) is the use of computers (or ) to aid in the creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of a design. This software is used to increase the productivity of the designer, improve the quality of design, improve c ...
(CAD) tools for circuit designers. He was born in
Zurich, Switzerland.
Séquin is a
Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Academic history
Séquin holds the Baccalaureate type C (in
Math
Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...
and
Science),
Basel, Switzerland (1960), the Diploma in Experimental Physics,
University of Basel, Switzerland (1965), and a
Ph.D in Experimental Physics, from the
Institute of Applied Physics, Basel (1969).
Career
Having received his doctorate, Séquin went on to work at the Institute of Applied Physics in Basel on the interface physics of MOS transistors and problems of applied electronics in the field of
cybernetic models. From 1970 to 1976 Séquin worked at
Bell Telephone Laboratories in
New Jersey on the design and investigation of
charge-coupled devices for imaging and signal processing applications. While at Bell Telephone Laboratories he was introduced to computer graphics in lectures given by
Ken Knowlton.
In 1977 Séquin joined the Faculty in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department (EECS) at Berkeley where he introduced the concept of
RISC
In computer engineering, a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) is a computer designed to simplify the individual instructions given to the computer to accomplish tasks. Compared to the instructions given to a complex instruction set comput ...
processors with
David A. Patterson in the early 1980s. He was head of the Computer Science Division from 1980 to 1983. Since then he has worked extensively on computer graphics, geometric modelling, and on the development of computer aided design (CAD) tools for circuit designers, architects, and for mechanical engineers.
Séquin's expertise in computer graphics and geometric design have led to his involvement with sculptors of abstract geometric art.
Dr. Séquin is a Fellow of the
Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) is a US-based international learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 and is the world's largest scientific and educational computing society. The ACM is a non-profit professional member ...
(ACM), a Fellow of the
IEEE, and has been elected to the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences. Since 2001 he has been Associate Dean, Capital Projects, at Berkeley’s College of Engineering.
References
External links
Biographical information on SéquinCarlo H. Séquin's homepage at U.C. BerkeleyInterview with SéquinSéquin on perfect shapes in higher dimensions, regular polytopes in n dimensionsCARLO H. SÉQUIN, AN ORAL HISTORY. 2 interview: 05 July 2002 tape 1\8: 00:03:41 − 00:06
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1941 births
Living people
Swiss computer scientists
American computer scientists
Computer graphics researchers
Computer systems researchers
University of California, Berkeley faculty
Scientists from Zürich