CIS MEMORANDUM

TO: Members of the Search Committee DATE: April 18, 1980 FROM: Jim Gibbons

SUBJECT: Search Committee Meeting

The first meeting of the Search Committee was held at 11:00 a.m. on Thursday, April 17. Those present were: Quate, Kailath, Baskett and Gibbons. At that meeting, we engaged in a very preliminary discussion of the issues that need to be clarified before we can have really meaningful discussions with candidates for the position of Associate Director. A second meeting was held on Thursday, April 24 at 11:00 a.m. attended by Knuth, Quate and Gibbons. I have asked Feigenbaum, Baskett and Kailath to prepare a staffing plan for the CIS systems area for consideration of the Executive Committee and subsequent approval of the Dean's Committee. The criteria which will be involved in developing that plan seem to me to be the same as those required for judging the various candidates which we will consider for the position of Associate Director. Hence, by copy of this memo I am asking Feigenbaum, Kailath and Baskett to prepare specific criteria to be used by the Search Committee.

While this work is going on we have agreed to develop a large list of potential candidates with brief biographical information on each of them. We will then reduce this list to several highly desirable prospects and interview each of these if possible. We also need to develop some specific views about the opportunities and privileges of the position of Associate Director. The candidates who have been mentioned so far are as follows:

Ivan Sutherland Elwyn Berlecamp David Forney Bob Gallagher Gordon Bell A. V. Aho Robert Spinrad Robert Sproull Raj Reddy Robert Luckey Fred Brooks Harry Van Trees

I attach hereto a memo prepared for the Search Committee by Tom Kailath i vingg information on Elwyn Berlekamp and some other candidates.

Our intention is to find someone who can be enthusiastically endorsed by the Department, the Computer Systems Laboratory and the Information Systems Laboratory and who will be able to work effectively with John Linvill and Jim Meindl in developing the CIS into full flower. Next ng will be on May Bth in McCul lough 326 at 11:00 a.m.

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Subject: April o 23rd Meeting Tl Tl o m Gentlemen: £ m I am sorry I may not be able to attend the search committee meeting O so today. Hence these hurried notes. > 2 o c 1. A. brief biography of Elwyn Berlekamp, supplemented by some 2 additional remarks. Please excuse the scribbles.

IS* 2. Another name for consideration is Irwin Jacobs, President of —X z> Linkabit Corporation, San Diego. This is a \/ery successful -n small communications oriented company, which has just been poo acquired by M-A-COM. Here is some basic data on him taken D from lEEE Membership c the latest Director: 2

m< :o IRWIN M., Fellow 1974. i l/. Born: October 18, 1933. New -I Mass. Degrees: 8.E.E., 1956, Cornell University; i -< 1957, Ph.D., 1959, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. FellowAward "For contributionsto information and communica- tion theory and its applications"; of the Year O Small Company -n Award,Region Six (Awarded to Linkabit Corp.), 1974,"For their -m outstanding support of lEEE activities"; Paper Award with J.A. m Heller, CommunicationsSociety, 1971, for Paper "ViterbiDecod- ing for Satelliteand Space Communication."Other 2 Awards: Out- m standing Paper Award, National Electronics 1962; S NASA Patent Award. o SO > 2 was at UCSD for several years, taught computer- o Jacobs c science courses and was head of the CS activities there for 2 awhile (or so I seem to recall). He does not have a research reputation in CS, but might be very effective in a development 1 role for CIS. He has kept up his technical and academic interests —> 2 in theory. Incidentally, he was Bob Gray's defacto -n communication o Ph.D. adviser at USC. po D cz 3. Ed Feigenbaum will have news of conversations with Raj Reddy, 2 and perhaps more on (who is going to CMU for the m< po summer). i_- l —-C 4. Some other names

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Jon Allen (MIT) Chuck Seitz (Cal Tech) Bob Lucky (Bell Labs)

These may not be major candidates, but talking about them and about other possible candidates, will perhaps help clarify for ourselves what it is we may want and may not want.

5. It is important that we have some CIS structure in place very soon, so that some action can be taken on various items, especially appointments (and El Gamal , Mathews, Newkirk in particular). An internal acting candidate is called for--Baskett? Ulman? [I hear that Tarjan is leaving!] Best regards,

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Elwyn R. Berlekamp (S'62-M'6s-F'72) was born in Dover. Ohio, on September 6, 1940. A winnerof the December 1961 William Lowell Putnam IntercollegiateMathematics Competition, he received the 8.5., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineeringfrom the Massachusetts Institute of Technology,Cambridge, in 1962, 1952, and 1964, respectively. From September 1964 to February 1967 he was an Assistant Professor of Electrical Engineer- at Ro^.U . ing at the University of , Berkeley. From 1967 to 1971 he was a member of the Mathematics Research Center at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ. Since 1971 he has been \\r\ I Professor of Mathematics and -Computer Science at the University of r California, Berkeley. Prof. Berlekamp has been a member of the Editorial Boards of Information and Control, the American Mathematical Monthly, and Utilitas Mathematicae (a new Canadian journal of applied mathematics, computer science, and statistics). His book, Algebraic Coding Theory, received theJEEE Group on Information Theory's best research paper award for information theory publications which appeared in 1967 and 1968. He received the 1971 "Outstanding Young Electrical Engineer" award from Eta Kappa Nu. In 1973 he was the President of the lEEE InformationTheory Group. J£€& Cr> /Cj7'2_ . M*-/"» Cwi-^ OFFICE MEMORANDUM STANFORD UNIVERSITY OFFICE MEMORANDUM STANFORD UNIVERSITY OFFICE MEMORANDUM " " O_JS

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o Subject Supplemental Notes on Tektronix Contacts Tl o m 2 m 2 These notes are supplemental to the visit report prepared by O with Chao of Tektronix XJ Bruce Hinchliffe on the April 2 and 3 meetings Gene > Z 1. Bob Dutton brought Aris Silzars of Tektronix to my office for a c: 2 brief discussion of the CIS. Silzars is head of the components development area in TEK Laboratories under Velsink. Gene Chao is head of the applied research group, also under Velsink. *s* Silzars has been discussing CAD and computer layout of micro- z> circuits with Dutton and his colleagues. We had a useful and otl XJ cordial discussion of the CIS. In the course of it, I suggested CT that Silzars should urge Velsink to visit Stanford to see more c in detail what we are doing. z m< XJ appears competition between Chao and Silzars. Chao There some -. is much more oriented toward Stanford, being an alumnus and hav- -< ing strong contacts here. Keeping Silzars informed about our developments is important. This will probably occur naturally o through his contacts with Dutton. n m 2. The discussion with Paul Carlson and Gene Chao with 2 m Bruce Hinchliffe and me was interesting. Paul Carlson is 2 President of the Oregon Graduate Center. He came somewhat more o >XJ than a year ago from the University of Washington. A few years z at visiting the D ago he spent a sabbatical year Stanford, C Information Systems Laboratory. The Oregon Graduate Center is 2 of great interest to the founders of Tektronix. They have for it which have not yet been realized. The Ln expectations —4 Oregon Graduate Center currently has 25 faculty members and > 50 graduate students. A connection of the Center approximately o both to Tektronix and, collaterally, to XJ for Integrated Systems CT Oregon Graduate Center is probably attractive both to the c Tektronix and the Graduate Center. Over the past several years, ? Graduate < we have had a series of interactions with the Oregon m XJ Center, mostly arranged by Carlson's predecessor, including the is* experimental videotapes Stanford classes. -I use of of a few -< follow up on Gene Chao's suggestion regarding an invita- 3. I plan to o John Young, who has -n tion to Wantland after clearing the idea with -n written to Wantland. O m 2 m 2 O XJ JGL/lp > Z CT C 2

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VALLEY SPACE CENTER P. 8555 PHILADELPHIA,PA 18101

DONALD BEILMAN VICt PRESIDENT AEROSPACE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT OPERATION

April 10, 1980

Dear John,

This letter will confirm General Electric s decision to support Stanford University's new Integrated Systems Center. This decision was made with the understanding that General Electric would provide $250,000 per year for three years, consistent with the conditions included as part of Stanford's Industrial Liaison Program.

As you and I have discussed on the telephone, we will need to meet in the near future to discuss the details of this new and exciting relationship for General Electric. Perhaps we could initiate that discussion on your visit to Valley Forge on May 6, prior to your trip to North Carolina. By the way, enclosed is a copy of the memo we left with Governor James Hunt of North Carolina which I mentioned to you over the telephone this week.

We at General Electric are looking forward to an even more effective relationship with Stanford as a result of this involvement in the new Integrated Systems Center.

Warmest regards,

D. S. Beilman

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o Subject: at ISL Affiliates Meeting VLSI Discussions *71 n m The ISL Affiliates Meeting on February 21, 22, had 21 companies in 2 attendance 19 member companies, plus Mark Guidry from Fairchild and m — 2 Payne Freret from HP. o > of VLSI by z The program included a one-hour review Research in ISL o Kailath, Newkirk, El Gamal, Kung and Mathews. The presentations seemed cz 2 to go well and there were several requests for more information.

Ted Kadota of Bell Laboratories, Mathematical Research Center, > Murray Hill, and Rich Gitlin, Data Techniques, Holmdel, were very z encouraging. Gitlin stated that a current 50% expansion of the physical oTl XJ plant at Holmdel was to accommodate planned VLSI development. GE's o motivation for becoming an Affiliate was the new VLSI effort. Mark Guidry, c z who is manager of MOS efforts at Fairchild, Palo Alto, was sent by < to Fairchild 's m Les Hogan to attend the meeting and plans recommend X3 according to Bill Maryeski becoming an ISL Affiliate. GTE-Sylvania, -I of their Chief Engineer^ Office, is busy considering expansion into VLSI research for signal processing. Bob Li of Tektronix was especially whole effort, partly as a help in persuading o enthusiastic about the -r* to set up a VLSI program. As a useful preliminary, he Tn Tektronix VPs r> hurriedly arranged for a visit to Tektronix by ■Kailath, in connection with m Kailath to Paul Carlson of the Oregon Graduate Center 2 a projected visit by m in Beaverton. 2 o > A conversation with John Mallinson, head of the Basic Research Group z o at Ampex, revealed that they seem to have more money available for c internal research than they know how to use. A recent offer of $10M 2 for some interesting new proposals apparently got no response within the company. With the favorable terms under which Ampex is to be soon acquired Ln by the Signal Companies, an approach to Ampex might be worthwhile. > z-n ISL AFFILIATES o XJ D Ampex IBM Aerojet-General Lincoln Laboratory z Linkabit m< ADR Ultrasound ■sa Bell Laboratories Measurex en Boeing Aircraft Northrop -I Boeing Computer Services Siemens Bell Northern Research TRW o General Electric Tektronix -n Varian n GTE-Sylvania m Hughes Aircraft 2 M 2 o /bMcK X) 2 o c 2

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