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UCSD Jacobs
School Names First of Eleven
The
University of California, San Diego's Jacobs School of Engineering has
named the first holder of an academic chair funded through corporate commitments
to the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology
[Cal-(IT)2]. The Skyworks Chair in High Speed Semiconductor
Devices and Circuits is the first of eleven new chairs at the School to
be funded by industry partners through Cal-(IT)2. Other
new chairs to be funded by Cal-(IT)2
partners include
four each from Qualcomm and Ericsson, and two from AMCC. Qualcomm has
also committed to funding a chair through the institute at UCSD's School
of International Relations and Pacific Studies. Together with other new
chairs already pledged by donors, total chairs at the Jacobs School will
double from 16 to 32. Among
those: Larry Smarr, the founding director of Cal-(IT)2, has
been appointed the first holder of the Harry Gruber Chair in Computer
Science and Information Technology at the Jacobs School. Skyworks
Chair Peter
Asbeck, the first holder of the Skyworks Chair, has been a member of the
Jacobs School's Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty since 1991,
after spending 13 years at the Rockwell International Science Center.
He is a world-recognized authority on the design and development of high-speed
integrated circuits, power amplifiers and opto-electronic devices using
advanced materials for wireless and other applications. Asbeck currently
leads the UCSD High-Speed Devices Group. "We are delighted that Peter
will be the first recipient of the university chair named for Skyworks,"
said David Aldrich, CEO of Skyworks. "Peter is a world-class researcher
and we applaud his efforts in developing high speed circuits and power
amplifiers for wireless applications based on Gallium arsenide and other
high speed technologies." Cal-(IT)2
founding industry
partner Conexant Systems, Inc., a worldwide leader in semiconductor solutions
for communications applications, originally pledged the chair. Skyworks
Solutions, Inc. (www.skyworksinc.com)
is the industry's leading wireless semiconductor company focused on radio
frequency and complete semiconductor system solutions for mobile communications
applications. The company begins operations as an independent company
in July, after the completion of the merger between Alpha Industries,
Inc. and Conexant's wireless communications business. Harry
Gruber Chair
The
Harry Gruber Chair is named after the founder and former CEO of INTERVU
Inc., a San Diego-based pioneer in streaming video over the Internet.
The chair was jointly endowed by Gruber, Brian Kenner, and Isaac Willis.
Kenner worked at INTERVU and is currently CEO of San Diego-based Learning
Framework. Both he and Willis, an Atlanta-based physician and early investor
in INTERVU, are members of the Jacobs School's Council of Advisors. "Today
the School of Engineering is indeed a national treasure, and I am delighted
to be able to support the school in its continuing quest for excellence
with an endowed chair," said Gruber. "I am especially delighted
with the selection of Larry Smarr as the first holder of this chair as
he is a world-renowned visionary in modern information technology." Gruber
also founded and led three other pioneering San Diego companies--Aramed,
Viagene, and Gensia Pharmaceuticals. He is currently founder and CEO of
Kintera, Inc., the leading provider of advanced Web-based solutions to
nonprofit organizations helping them raise funds and awareness. Gruber
did his medical residency, fellowships in allergy/rheumatology and biochemical
genetics, and was on the faculty of the UCSD School of Medicine. He has
also served on the UCSD Foundation Board of Directors as Chair of the
Development Committee. Cal-(IT)2
director Larry
Smarr has been a member of the Jacobs School's Computer Science and Engineering
faculty since 2000. Prior to joining UCSD, he spent 15 years as founding
director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the
University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. He is widely credited with helping
to build the nation's supercomputing centers and was an early architect
of the Internet and Web browsers. He is also a scientific advisor to Kintera. |
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