Prof. A. Richard Newton
Richard 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 joined the
faculty at Berkeley in 1979 and is currently Dean of the College of Engineering
and the Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering. He is also a Professor in
the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, where he was
Chair of the department from 1999-2000. 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.
Over the past twenty-five years, he has received numerous awards for his
research and teaching. Most recently, he received the
2003 Phil Kaufman Award
for his research and entrepreneurial contributions to the electronic design
automation industry. In 2003
he was also awarded a Doctorate of Laws, honoris causa, from his alma
mater the University of Melbourne, Australia.
From 1998-2002 he served as the founding director of the
MARCO/DARPA
Gigascale Silicon Research Center
(GSRC) for silicon chip design and test. With an annual budget of $9 million in
2002, the GSRC is a major private-public partnership with the US Government and
the semiconductor industry that funds and coordinates long-range research at a
dozen major US universities and involving many industrial collaborators.
In addition to his academic role, Professor Newton has helped
to found a number of design technology companies, including SDA Systems (now
Cadence Design Systems), Synopsys, PIE Design Systems (now a part of Cadence), Simplex
Solutions and Crossbow.
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.
Prof. A. Richard Newton
Richard
Newton is currently Dean of
the College of Engineering and the Roy W. Carlson Professor of
Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley.
He has been a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and
Computer Sciences since 1979, where he has been actively involved as a teacher
and researcher in the areas of design technology, electronic system
architecture, and integrated circuit design.
From 1998-2002 he served as
the founding director of the
MARCO/DARPA
Gigascale Silicon Research Center
(GSRC) for silicon chip design and test. With an annual budget of $9 million in
2002, the GSRC is a major private-public partnership with the US Government and
the semiconductor industry that funds and coordinates long-range research at a
dozen major US universities and involving many industrial collaborators.
In
addition to his academic role, Professor Newton has helped to found a number of
design technology companies, including SDA Systems (now Cadence Design Systems),
PIE Design Systems (now a part of Cadence), Simplex Solutions, Crossbow
Technologies, where he is currently Chairman, and Synopsys, where he rejoined the Board of Directors in 1995. He is also a member
of the Board of Directors of Tensilica, Inc. and a member
of the Technology Council of ST Microelectronics, as well as the technical
advisory boards of Lightspeed Semiconductor, Radiata (now a Cisco company),
Sonics, Airgo Networks, Pharmix and Form Factor. Since 1997, he has also been a member of the
Technical Advisory Board of the Microsoft Research Laboratories.
Professor Newton also serves on the Board of Trustees for the
Anita Borg Institute
for Women and Technology.
From 1988-2002, he has
acted as a Venture Partner with the Mayfield Fund, a high-technology venture
capital partnership, where he has contributed to both the evaluation and
early-stage development of over two dozen new companies. He is currently a
Venture Partner with
Tallwood Venture Capital.
From November 1994 to July 1995, Professor Newton was the acting President and
CEO of
Silicon Light Machines
(formerly Echelle, Inc), a development-stage company which is bringing to market
a number of display systems based on the application of micromachined silicon
light-valves. The company was later acquired by
Cypress Semiconductor.
He is a Member of the ACM, a Fellow of the IEEE, and a member of the National
Academy of Engineering.
Prof. A. Richard Newton
Richard is currently Dean of the College of Engineering and the Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. He has been a Professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences since 1979, where he has been actively involved as a teacher and researcher in the areas of design technology, electronic system architecture, and integrated circuit design.
Over the past twenty-five years, he has received many awards for his research and teaching.