Alex d'Arbeloff Receives Lifetime Contribution Award to the Test World.Business/Technology Editors ITC ITC (Brit) n abbr (= Independent Television Commission) → Fernseh-Aufsichtsgremium ITC n abbr (BRIT) (= Independent Television Commission) → ATLANTIC CITY Atlantic City, city (1990 pop. 37,986), Atlantic co., SE N.J., an Atlantic resort and convention center; settled c.1790, inc. 1854. Situated on Absecon Island, a barrier island 10 mi (16. , N.J., and BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 3, 2000 The Test Technology Technical Council (TTTC TTTC Test Technology Technical Committee (IEEE) TTTC The Tibetan Tea Company (band) TTTC Too Tough to Call TTTC Trees to the Curb (band) ) Recognizes d'Arbeloff's Contributions The Test Technology Technical Council (TTTC) today awarded Teradyne founder, Alex d'Arbeloff with the Lifetime Contribution Award to the Test World at the International Test Conference (ITC) show here in Atlantic City, New Jersey “Atlantic City” redirects here. For other uses, see Atlantic City (disambiguation). Atlantic City is a city in Atlantic County, New Jersey, USA. Famous for its boardwalk and casino gambling, it is a resort community located on Absecon Island on the coast of the . The award is the highest award given by the IEEE Computer Society (body) IEEE Computer Society - The society of the IEEE which publishes the journal "Computer". http://computer.org/. to an individual in the test field. The Council recognized d'Arbeloff's contributions to the test world in his role as the founder of Teradyne. The award citation honors him as "father of the ATE industry." The Council is part of the IEEE Computer Society that organizes the annual ITC show. About Alex d'Arbeloff Mr. d'Arbeloff together with Nicholas DeWolf founded Teradyne, Inc. in 1960. Teradyne is now a leading manufacturer of automatic test equipment and interconnection systems for the electronics and telecommunications industries. He served as president and chief executive officer until May 1997, and Chairman of the Board until June 2000. Teradyne's 1999 annual sales were $1.8 billion, with net profits of $192 million. Teradyne is the world's largest producer of automatic test equipment for the semiconductor industry. Alex d'Arbeloff, a member of the MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology Corporation since 1989, was named Chairman of the MIT Corporation on July 1, 1997. He has served on MIT's Corporation Development Committee and on visiting committees for the Departments of Economics, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and Mechanical Engineering. In addition, Mr. d'Arbeloff has taught classes at the Sloan School of Management, and developed and teaches a course on management and entrepreneurship for mechanical engineering graduate students. Mr. d'Arbeloff serves on the boards of several private and non-profit institutions. He is a co-founder of Sparkventures, an early stage fund focused on investments in the New England area. Born in France, Mr. d'Arbeloff lived in Paris and in South America before his family moved to the United States. He spent his adolescence in the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of area, then came to Massachusetts in 1945 to attend MIT, earning the SB in Management from the Institute in 1949. Alex and his wife Brit, also an MIT alum, reside in Brookline, Massachusetts. They have four children, and one grandchild. About Teradyne Teradyne, Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :TER Third version. See bis. ) is the world's largest supplier of automatic test equipment (ATE) and associated software for the electronics and telecommunications industries with 1999 sales of $1.8 billion and more than 8500 employees worldwide. Teradyne's products are used to test semiconductors, circuit assemblies, telephone lines, networks, computerized telephone systems, and software. Teradyne is also a leading supplier of backplane assemblies and high-density connectors used in high-performance electronic systems in communications and computing. More than 70% of the company's business is driven by Internet growth. Visit Teradyne at ITC -- Atlantic City, New Jersey, October 3-5, 2000 -- Booth #903 |
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