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Alumni Awards
Alumni Recognition
Roozbeh Ghaffari, '01, MEng '03, HST PhD '08, was selected for the TR35 in 2013 as an innovator creating novel ways to integrate elctronic devices with the body to address health issues. He is co-founder of MC10 and leads advanced technology development there.
The Atlantic has recently featured two women computer scientists — both MIT graduates. Irene Greif, the first woman to receive her PhD in computer science from MIT (in 1975) and Radia Perlman (PhD, 1988), who (also) remembers being one of just a few dozen women out of a class of 1,000. Read each article, now available on the alumni section of the EECS website: eecs.mit.edu/people/alumni
Sanjay Ghemawat, EE '90, with Jeffrey Dean was recipient of the 2012 ACM-Infosys Foundation Award in the Computing Sciences. They led the conception, design, and implementation of much of Google’s revolutionary software infrastructure, which underlies the company's web search and indexing, as well as numerous applications across the industry.
Irene Greif graduated from MIT, (EECS) with a PhD in computer science — the first female CS PhD graduate. In her interview for The Atlantic, March 5, 2014, Greif talks about her experiences at MIT, when her class had the highest ratio of women to men yet (50 out of 1,000).
Kota Murali, EE '06, won 3 awards in 2013 including IBM's Corporate Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, the Materials Research Society of India Medal, and the Indian National Science Academy Young Scientist Award. Kota is the Chief Technologist for Nanotechnology at the IBM India Semiconductor Research and Development Center.
Recently retired from IBM, where she based her career since the mid '90s,Greif hopes to devote some time to encouraging young women to go into STEM fields and to coaching them to stick with these areas.
Yogesh Ramadass, EE '06, was named Innovator of the Year in the ACE Awards for his pioneering work in energy harvesting circuits. The Texas Instruments lead design engineer helped craft the TPS 62736, an ultra-low power converter that manages microwatts generated from solar, thermoelectric, magnetic and vibration energy.
Irwin Jacobs, SM '57, ScD '59 was selected for the Computer History Museum's 2014 Fellow Award — a distinction that recognizes technology leaders who have forever changed the world with their accomplishments. Jacobs is cited for his pioneering work in digital mobile telephony, data and communications technology.
Donor Recognition
Following her years at MIT, Radia Perlman became a leader in the field of computer science, developing the algorithm behind the Spanning Tree Protocol (STP), an innovation that helped to contribute to making the Internet possible. Currently, she is a Fellow at Intel. She modestly notes about her contributions to Internet infrastructure, "no single technology really caused the Internet to succeed. ...sometimes, things get invented multiple times until the time just happens to be right."
Photos over the next three pages were taken at the kickoff reception for Start6, held in the Media Lab's Silverman Skyline Room on January 15 for Start6 participants and EECS Alumni. Photo credit: Bryce Vickmark Photography 88
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