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DONALD O. PEDERSON
Pages 226-231

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... After receiving his Ph.D., Pederson stayed on for a period as a researcher in Stanford's electronics research lab. From 1953 to 1955, he worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories, in Murray Hill, New Jersey, and also taught night classes at Newark College of Engineering (now the New Jersey Institute of Technology)
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From page 228...
... Don foresaw that dramatic reductions in the size and cost of electronics would become possible. He became the preeminent pioneer in university research and teaching on integrated circuits, now generally known as "microchips." Don decided that to undertake research in integrated circuits and to teach students to design them, the university needed its own semiconductor fabrication facility.
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... Don became convinced that the computer would play a necessary role in the design and analysis of integrated electronics. A decade of research, involving many undergraduate and graduate students, eventually produced the integrated circuit computer simulation program called SPICE (Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis)
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... 230 MEMORIAL TRIBUTES Science fellowship in 1988, the Berkeley Citation in 1991, the Phil Kaufman Award from the Electronic Design Automation Consortium in 1995, and the Medal of Honor from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 1998. He also received an honorary doctorate from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium.
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