James Donald Meindl (April 20, 1933 – June 7, 2020) was director of the

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Microelectronics Research Center and the Marcus Nanotechnology Research Center and Pettit Chair Professor of Microelectronics at the

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. He won the 2006

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"for pioneering contributions to microelectronics, including low power, biomedical, physical limits and on-chip interconnect networks.”

Education

He received his

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and

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degrees in

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from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1955, 1956 and 1958 respectively.

Career

From 1965 to 1967, he was the founding Director of the Integrated Electronics Division at the

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Electronics Laboratories. In 1967 he was appointed John M. Fluke Professor of Electrical Engineering at

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before becoming vice provost of research. He went on to serve as Associate Dean for Research in the School of Engineering; Director of the Center for Integrated Systems; and was the founding Director of the Integrated Circuits Laboratory. He was appointed Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost of

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in 1986 and served in there until 1993. Meindl's fellowships include the

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and the

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and he was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1978. He is also a co-founder of Telesensory Systems, Inc., a manufacturer of electronic reading aids for the blind. Meindl also served on the board of directors of SanDisk Corporation and

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and previously of Stratex Networks.

Notable students

Among his more than 80 doctoral studentsJames D. Meindl overview with an ordered list of all of his PHD students
Digest of James D. Meindl Retirement Party, Stanford University, Oct, 2016
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, founder of Cypress Semiconductor,

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, president of

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, founder of

, Roger Melen founder of

Cromemco Cromemco was a Mountain View, California microcomputer company known for its high-end Zilog Z80, Z80-based S-100 bus computers and peripherals in the early days of the personal computer revolution. The company began as a partnership in 1974 betwe ...

, Jim Plummer, dean of engineering at Stanford University, L. Rafael Reif, President of MIT, Richard Swanson, founder of SunPower Corporation, Steve Combs, founder of

Maxim Integrated Products Maxim Integrated, a subsidiary of Analog Devices, designs, manufactures, and sells analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits for the automotive, industrial, communications, consumer, and computing markets. Maxim's product portfolio includes po ...

, Nicky Lu, founder of Etron Technology and

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, professor at Stanford University.

References

External links

Georgia Institute of Technology profile
* James D. Meindl, "The Wizard of Watts, IEEE Spectrum, May 31, 2006. https://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/design/wizard-of-watts {{DEFAULTSORT:Meindl, James D. 1933 births 2020 deaths IEEE Medal of Honor recipients Carnegie Mellon University College of Engineering alumni Georgia Tech faculty Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute faculty Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering Stanford University faculty