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Title
Lawrence Larson: interview
Creator
UC San Diego
Contributor
Simard, Caroline, 1972-
West, Joel
Larson, Lawrence E.
Date Created and/or Issued
Recorded January 28, 2004
Contributing Institution
UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives
Collection
San Diego Technology Archive Oral Histories
Rights Information
Under copyright
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Description
Dr. Lawrence E. Larson received the BS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, Ithaca, and a PhD from UCLA. From 1980 to 1996 he was at Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, CA, where he directed the development of high-frequency microelectronics in GaAs, InP and Si/SiGe and MEMS technologies. He joined the faculty at the University of California - San Diego, in 1996, where he was the inaugural holder of the Communications Industry Chair. He was Director of the UCSD Center for Wireless Communications from 2001-2006 and was Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering from 2007-2011. He moved to Brown University in 2011, where he is Founding Dean of the School of Engineering. He has published over 300 papers, received 40 US patents, co-authored three books, graduated 23 PhD students, and is a Fellow of the IEEE. [Source: Brown Research]
Born digital
Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego, La Jolla, 92093-0175 (https://lib.ucsd.edu/sca)
Larson, Lawrence. Interview conducted by Caroline Simard and Joel West, January 28, 2004. The San Diego Technology Archive (SDTA), UC San Diego Library, La Jolla, CA.
Type
text
Identifier
ark:/20775/bb4712737v
Language
English
Subject
Microelectromechanical systems
Wireless communication systems
Telecommunication
Engineering--Education
University of California, San Diego
Hughes Aircraft Company. Research Laboratories
San Diego (Calif.)
Place
San Diego (Calif.)

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