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EDWARD J. McCLUSKEY
Pages 254-257

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... This was the first systematic approach to logic circuit design and is still used and taught today. Ed began his professional career in 1955 at Bell Laboratories before moving in 1959 to the Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University, where he built a graduate research program in digital systems.
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... . Ed received many awards and honors: the IEEE's John von Neumann Medal in 2012 for "fundamental contributions that shaped the design and testing of digital systems," Emanuel Piore Award in 1996 for "pioneering and fundamental contributions to design automation and fault tolerant computing," and Centennial Medal and Computer Society Technical Achievement Award in Testing, both in 1984; the EuroASIC 90 Prize in 1990 for "outstanding contributions to logic synthesis"; and in 2008 the ACM-SIGDA Pioneering Achievement Award.
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... The bus became a fixture at Stanford and was used for camping trips for many years. Ed was married to Roberta Jean Marie Erickson and they had six children: Edward Robert (Ted)


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