A. Richard Newton
received the
B. Eng. and M.Eng.Sci degrees from the University of Melbourne, Australia, in
1973 and 1975 respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from the University of
California at Berkeley in 1978. He is currently
Dean of the College of
Engineering and the Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering
at the
University of California, Berkeley. Since 1979 he has been actively involved as
a researcher and teacher in the areas of design technology, electronic system
architecture, and integrated circuit design. He was the founding director of the
MARCO/DARPA Gigascale Silicon Research Center from 1998-2002.
Dr. Newton
was an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Computer-Aided Design for
Integrated Circuits from 1984-1988 and a member of the Administrative Committee
of the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society 1985-1988. He was Technical Program
Chair of the 1988 and 1989 ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conferences, Vice Chair of
the 1990 Conference and was General Chair of the Conference in 1991.
He has
received a number of awards for his teaching and research, including Best Paper
Awards at the 1987 and 1989 ACM/IEEE Design Automation Conferences, and the
International Conference on Computer Design, and he was selected in 1987 as the
national recipient of the C. Holmes McDonald Outstanding Young Professor Award
of the Eta-Kappa-Nu Engineering Honor Society. In 1989 he was co-recipient of a
Best Paper Award for the IEEE Transactions for Computer Aided Design of
Integrated Circuits and Systems.
Professor Newton serves on the Board of Trustees for the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology. He is a Member of the ACM, Fellow of the IEEE, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering.