Rambus Founder and Chief Scientist Mark Horowitz Elected to National Academy of Engineering.Honored for Leadership in High-Bandwidth Memory Interface Technology LOS ALTOS Los Altos (lôs ăl`tōs, lŏs), residential city (1990 pop. 26,303), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1952. There is diversified light manufacturing. , Calif. -- Rambus Inc. (Nasdaq:RMBS RMBS Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities RMBS Rambus, Inc. (NASDAQ stock symbol) RMBS Russian Mortgage-Backed Securities ), one of the world's premier technology licensing companies specializing in high-speed chip architectures, today announced that founder and Chief Scientist Dr. Mark Horowitz Mark Horowitz is a professor of electrical engineering and computer science at Stanford University. He received his BS and MS in electrical engineering from MIT in 1978 and he completed his Ph.D in electrical engineering from Stanford University under the direction of Prof. has been elected to the National Academy of Engineering for his leadership in high-bandwidth memory interface technology and scalable cache coherent multiprocessor architectures. Dr. Horowitz is among the 2,217 US members of this distinguished organization. "This is a great honor and well deserved recognition for Mark's foundational technical contributions to our industry," said Harold Hughes Harold Everett Hughes (February 10 1922 – October 23 1996) was the Democratic Governor of Iowa from 1963 until 1969; he had been a Republican earlier in his life. Hughes also served as a Democratic United States Senator from 1969 until 1975. , chief executive officer at Rambus. "We are proud to have such a distinguished member of the engineering community leading our world-class team of scientists and engineers in designing and delivering the world's most advanced memory and logic architectures." The National Academy of Engineering (NAE nae adv. Scots 1. No. 2. Not. ) is an independent, nonprofit institution. Its members consist of the nation's premier engineers, who are elected by their peers for seminal contributions to engineering. The academy provides leadership and guidance to government on the application of engineering resources to social, economic, and security problems. Established in 1964, NAE operates under the congressional charter granted to the National Academy of Sciences in 1863. About Rambus Inc. Rambus is one of the world's premier technology licensing companies specializing in the invention and design of high-speed chip architectures. Since its founding in 1990, the Company's patented innovations, breakthrough technologies and renowned integration expertise have helped industry-leading chip and system companies bring superior products to market. Rambus' technology and products solve customers' most complex chip and system-level interface challenges enabling unprecedented performance in computing, communications and consumer electronics applications. Rambus licenses both its world-class patent portfolio as well as its family of leadership and industry-standard interface products. Headquartered in Los Altos, California Los Altos (IPA: [lɔs ɑltos]) is a city at the southern end of the San Francisco Peninsula, in the San Francisco Bay Area. The city is in Santa Clara County, California, United States. , Rambus has regional offices in North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. , India, Germany, Japan, Korea and Taiwan. Additional information is available at www.rambus.com. |
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