Dr. Carlo Séquin

Biography

Carlo H. Séquin received his Ph.D. in Experimental Physics from the University of Basel, Switzerland, in 1969. Following this, he worked at the Institute of Applied Physics in Basel, focusing on interface physics of MOS transistors and applied electronics in cybernetic models. From 1970 to 1976, he worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey, where he designed charge-coupled devices for imaging signal processing applications. Séquin was significantly involved in the introduction of computer graphics classes at Bell Labs, taught by Ken Knowlton. In 1977, he joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) at the University of California, Berkeley, where he began teaching courses on large-scale integrated (VLSI) circuits, aiming to bridge the Computer Science division with the EE faculty. He played a pivotal role in the introduction of the RISC architecture in microcomputers while serving as head of the Computer Science Division from 1980 to 1983. Séquin is a Fellow of the ACM and IEEE and was elected to the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences.

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