NAE Elects New Members

The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has again elected members of the computer science and engineering community to the Academy. This is an honor reserved for those who make "important contributions to engineering theory and practice, including significant contributions to the literature of engineering theory and practice," and those who have demonstrated "unusual accomplishment in the pioneering of new and developing fields of technology."

This year there was a total of eighty engineers and eight foreign associates elected to membership. The announcement was made by William Wulf, president of NAE. There is currently a total U.S. membership of 1,984 and the number of foreign associates is now 154.

This year's newest members from the CS&CE Communities:

Alfred V. Aho, associate research vice president, communications science research division, Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies, Holmdel, N.J. For contributions to the fields of algorithms and programming tools.

Robert W. Bower, professor, department of electrical and computer engineering, University of California, Davis. For inventing the self-aligned, gate ion-implanted MOSFET and for establishing ion implantation to fabricate semiconductor integrated circuits.

Wesley A. Clark, principal, Clark, Rockoff, and Associates, Brooklyn, N.Y. For the design of early computers.

James W. Demmel, professor, computer science division, University of California, Berkeley. For contributions to numerical linear algebra and scientific computing.

Louis V. Gerstner Jr. , chairman and chief executive officer, IBM Corp., Armonk, N.Y. For technical leadership in enhancing the competitiveness of U.S. industry.

Bruce Hajek, professor, department of electrical and computer engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. For contributions to stochastic systems, communication networks, and control.

Patrick M. Hanrahan, professor of computer science and electrical engineering, Stanford University, Stanford, Calif. For contributions to computer graphics and to the practice of rendering complex scenes.

Aravind K. Joshi, Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer and Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. For contributions to natural language processing.

William N. Joy, founder and chief scientist, Sun Microsystems, Aspen, Colo. For contributions to operating systems and networking software.

Richard J. Liptonv, professor, department of computer science, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. For application of computer science theory to practice.

Nicky C. Lu, founder and president, Etron Technology Inc., Hsinchu, Taiwan. For contributions to high-speed dynamic memory chip design and cell array technology, and sustained technical leadership in the VSLI/memory industry.

Donald W. Peaceman, consultant, Houston. For contributions to the development and usage of transient three-dimensional multiphase simulators for predicting performance of petroleum reservoirs.

Patricia G. Selinger, IBM fellow and director, database integration, IBM Almaden Corp., San Jose, Calif. For leadership and contributions to relational database technology.

Martin Grötschel, vice president, Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum, Berlin. For contributions to combinatorial optimization and its applications.

Amir Pnueli, professor of computer science, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. For the invention of temporal logic and other tools for designing and verifying software and systems.