Bob founded and led the Massachusetts branch of Sun Microsystems Laboratories for over ten years. He is serving as Interim Director of Sun Microsystems Laboratories. Since undergraduate days, he has been building hardware and software for computer graphics and has been involved in VLSI design, especially of asynchronous circuits and systems. Before joining Sun in 1990, he was a principal with Sutherland, Sproull & Associates, an associate professor at Carnegie Mellon University and a member of the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. He is author of the recently-published book "Logical Effort," and a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and has served on the US Air Force Scientific Advisory Board. |