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To: longnshort who wrote (941285)	6/18/2016 4:12:30 PM
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Ghavam Shahidi is an Iranian-American electrical engineer and IBM Fellow. [1] He studied electrical engineering at MIT, where he wrote a PhD thesis on "velocity overshoot in deeply scaled MOSFETs", under supervision of Professor Dimitri Antoniadis. Shahidi joined IBM Research in 1989, where he initiated and subsequently led the development of silicon on insulator (SOI) complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) technology at IBM. This work resulted in the qualification of multiple CMOS SOI technologies and their transfer to manufacturing; establishment of design infrastructure; and the first mainstream use of SOI. He remained with IBM Microelectronics as the director of high-performance logic development until 2003. He then moved back to IBM's Watson's Laboratory as the Director of Silicon Technology. [2] Shahidi received the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' J J Ebers Award in 2006. Bijan Davari is vice president of Next Generation Computing Systems/Technology at IBM. Print 6 In 1954, Texas Instruments engineers radically miniaturized the transistor radio, making it simultaneously less expensive and more powerful. Their reimagination of what had been a slow-selling semiconductor technology changed the world: the transistor radio became the most popular electronic device in history, and the semiconductor, of course, became the heart of modern technology. Bijan Davari, who pioneered critical functions of the modern computer chip, was born that same year in Tehran. At age 11 his dad handed him his first transistor radio. “It was so much smaller and more elegant,” says Davari, who tinkered with vacuum-tube radios. “I could see that it was a game changer, and that’s how I got started.” By the time he was in his 30s, Davari was leading the IBM research team that would produce another game changer—the first generation of high-performance, low-voltage logic (complementary metal oxide semiconductor, or CMOS) that characterizes computer chips. “I’ve always been interested in the ‘how’ of making significant advances in function, particularly when it’s believed it can’t be done,” Davari says. Today we take it for granted that these chips, which have gone from megahertz to gigahertz performance standards within 15 years, power everything from iPhones to supercomputers. Without Davari’s breakthroughs, computers would be much hotter, slower and noisier.