Technical Advisory Board

Richard B. Brown, Ph. D.,
Chairman

Dr. Brown is the Dean of Engineering at the University of Utah. After receiving his B.S. and M.S. degrees from Brigham Young University, he worked in industry as Vice-President of Engineering at Holman Industries, Oakdale, California, and as Manager of Computer Development at Cardinal Industries, Webb City, Missouri. He returned to school for a Ph.D. degree at the University of Utah, and then in 1985, joined the faculty of The University of Michigan Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, where he recently served as the Interim Department Chair. Dr. Brown has conducted major research projects in solid-state sensors, high performance microprocessors, and low-power systems-on-chips. He is also the founder of Sensicore, which produces solid-state chemical sensors for use in water, and a co-founder of iSens, a company that produces biomedical sensors.

Bob Brodersen, Ph. D.

Dr. Brodersen received his Ph.D. from M.I.T. in 1972 and was with the Central Research Laboratory at Texas Instruments for three years. He joined the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science faculty at the University of California, Berkeley in 1976 where he is now the John Whinnery Chair Professor and Co-Scientific Director of the Berkeley Wireless Research Center. Professor Brodersen's research is focused in the areas of low power design and wireless communications and the CAD tools necessary to support these activities.

He has won best paper awards for a number of journal and conference papers in the areas of integrated circuit design, CAD and communications. In 1982 he became a Fellow of the IEEE and was co-recipient of the IEEE Morris K. Liebmann Award for Outstanding Emerging Technology in 1983. He received Technical Achievement Awards in the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society in 1986, from the Signal Processing Society in 1991, and from the ACM Special Interest Group in Mobile Computing in 1999. Professor Brodersen was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Lund, Sweden in 1999 and in 2000 he received the Millennium Award from the Circuits and Systems Society and the Golden Jubilee Award from the IEEE.

Bob Colwell, Ph. D.

Dr. Colwell was Intel's chief IA32 microprocessor architect from 1992-2000, and managed the IA32 Arch group in Intel's Hillsboro, Oregon facility through the P6 and Pentium 4 projects. He was named the Eckert-Mauchly award winner for 2005, the highest honor in the field of computer architecture, for "outstanding achievements in the design and implementation of industry-changing microarchitectures, and for significant contributions to the RISC/CISC architecture debate." He was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006 "for contributions to turning novel computer architecture concepts into viable, cutting-edge commercial processors". He was named an Intel Fellow in 1996. Previously, Dr. Colwell was a CPU architect at VLIW pioneer Multiflow Computer, a hardware design engineer at workstation vendor Perq Systems, and a member of technical staff at Bell Labs. He has published many technical papers and journal articles, is inventor or co-inventor on 40+ patents, and has participated in numerous panel sessions and invited talks. He is the Perspectives editor for IEEE Computer Magazine, and wrote the At Random column 2002-2005. He is currently an independent consultant. Dr. Colwell holds a B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Pittsburgh, and an M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University.

Michael S. McCorquodale, Ph. D.

Dr. Michael S. McCorquodale is the CTO and founder of Mobius Microsystems. Mobius’ enabling technology is based on his dissertation work in self-referenced CMOS oscillators. He has published articles in over 20 refereed journals and conference proceedings, and he holds inventorship on over 20 issued and pending U.S. patents including foreign counterparts thereof. Dr. McCorquodale earned a B.S.E. with honors from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and an M.S.E. and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, all in electrical engineering.

Jarvis Tou

Mr. Tou is currently Vice President of Product Management and Marketing at Staccato Communications, an ultra-wideband radio company focused on all-CMOS RFIC solutions. Previously, Mr. Tou was Vice President at Silicon Wave where he oversaw the marketing and launch of second- and third-generation Bluetooth ICs. Mr. Tou also co-founded Intel's Wireless Products Operation where, as Managing Director, he was responsible for developing and delivering branded personal wireless products. He has held numerous management positions at Intel in the areas of embedded processor, personal connectivity, and mobile phone products. Earlier at Motorola, Mr. Tou held various technical positions in the ASIC Division, BiCMOS technology development, and CMOS manufacturing groups. Mr. Tou holds a B.S.E.E. from the University of Michigan, an M.S.E.E. from Purdue University, and an M.B.A. from Arizona State University. He has authored several papers and holds one patent regarding VLSI design.