Brunel
Lecture Series on Complex Systems
Engineering Systems Division
Lecture:
The
21st Century is about Engineering, Systems, and Society
By
Dr. A. Richard Newton, Dean of the College of Engineering
at University of California at Berkeley; Roy W. Carlson
Professor of Engineering; Professor of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Sciences
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About
the Lecture:
In 20th-century-speak,
you can invent and patent a widget, make and sell millions
of them, and be a great success. Or you can discover a new
drug, develop a cure for a high-margin disease and retire.
But only if you cash out before someone else, somewhere
else in the world, copies your invention and sells it at
half the price! And while this formula might still work
in the 21st century too, the real challenges—and
the real opportunities—are hiding in the
one-offs. The big, hairy, complex societal-scale problems
that this world is facing more and more as it bends to accommodate
the billions of people who, as Peter Drucker says, for the
first time in the history of our civilization have choices:
“For the first time, they have to manage themselves,
and society is totally unprepared for it.”
The
Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest
of Society (CITRIS) was formed five years ago by a group
of faculty and students at four University of California
campuses to formulate a number of these societal-scale problems,
to identify the key fundamental roadblocks to their solution,
and to undertake the basic research so identified. From
reliable and sustainable sources of energy and its use,
to health care and transportation systems, to education
and the mitigation of natural (and now man-made!) disasters.
But we are all just beginning of this challenging new adventure.
In this presentation, the origins of CITRIS, its organizing
principles, and a selection of the problems its faculty
and students are tackling will be used to illustrate the
potential and value of such research.
About
the Speaker:
A.
Richard Newton, professor and dean of the College of Engineering
at the University of California, Berkeley, a pioneer in
electronic design automation and integrated circuit design,
and a visionary leader in the technology industry, died
in early January, 2007.
An
Australian native, A. Richard Newton received received the
B.Eng. and M.Eng.Sci degrees from the University
of Melbourne, Australia, in 1973 and 1975 respectively
and his 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 at Berkeley. He
was also a Professor in the Department
of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, where
he was Chair of the department from 1999-2000. Since 1979
was actively involved as a researcher and teacher in the
areas of design technology, electronic system architecture,
and integrated circuit design.
His
interests included the application of Information and Communications
Technologies (ICT) to the solution of tough societal and
quality-of-life problems. In 1999 he led in the founding
of the Center for Information Technology Research in the
Interest of Society (CITRIS), a California Institute for
Science and Innovation dedicated to the application of information
and communication technologies to the solution of such tough
societal and quality-of-life problems in areas that included
energy, the environment, transportation, health care, disaster
mitigation and response, and education.
From
1986-1988 he was Vice Chairman for Computing Resources in
the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences.
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. Professor Newton
helped with many design technology conferences and workshops
over the years and 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
received a number of awards for his teaching and research,
including Best Paper Awards at the 1988 European Solid State
Circuits Conference, 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.
In 2000, Professor Newton was selected as a recipient of
the IEEE Golden Jubilee Award for his contributions to Circuits
and Systems. In 2003 he was also awarded a Doctorate of
Laws, honoris causa, from his alma mater
the University of Melbourne, Australia. Professor Newton
is an Honorary Professor in Integrated Circuit Design at
the National
Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan and was awarded
the 2003 EDAC
Phil Kaufman Award. In 2004, Professor Newton was elected
to the National
Academy of Engineering.
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.
He
was a Founding Member of both the EDIF technical and steering
committees, an advisor to the CAD Framework Initiative,
and was also a Founding Member of EDAC.
In
addition to his academic role, Professor Newton 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,
and Synopsys,
where he rejoined the Board of Directors in 1995. He was
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,
Inc., Airgo
Networks, Pharmix and Form
Factor. Since 1997, he was a member of the Technical
Advisory Board of the Microsoft
Research Laboratories. He was a member of the Board
of Trustees of the Anita
Borg Institute for Women and Technology.
From
1988-2002, he 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
was a Member of the ACM, a Fellow of the IEEE, and a member
of the National Academy of Engineering.
About
the Series:
THE
BRUNEL LECTURE SERIES ON COMPLEX SYSTEMS was made
possible by funds assembled and underwritten by Frank P.
Davidson, convener of the Channel Tunnel Study Group (1957).
It was this group's design, accomplished by agreement with
Bechtel Corporation, Brown & Root, Inc. and Morrison-Knudsen
Company, Inc. in 1959, that formed the basis of the subsea
railway link now in service between England and France.
Mr.
Davidson is a retired Senior Research Associate at MIT.
From 1970-1996, he was Chairman of the System Dynamics Steering
Committee, Sloan School of Management, and Coordinator of
the Macro-Engineering Research Group at MIT's School of
Engineering. He co-edited, with C. Lawrence Meador, Macro-Engineering:
Global Infrastructure Solutions, subtitled Massachusetts
Institute of Technology Brunel Lectures 1983-1992. With
Ernst G. Frankel and C. Lawrence Maedor, he co-edited Macro-Engineering,
subtitled MIT Brunel Lectures on Global Infrastructure.
These volumes, published by Ellis Horwood and Horwood Publishing
Limited in 1992 and 1997, respectively, appeared in Chichester,
England, as did Macro-Problems and World Projects, subtitled
Essays in Honor of Frank Davidson, which appeared
in 1998, on the occasion of Mr. Davidsons retirement and
80th birthday. The latter volume was edited by MIT Professor
Emeritus Ernst G. Frankel and by Uwe Kitzinger, CBE, former
president of Templeton College, Oxford, and now a Visiting
Scholar at Harvard.
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