Friedman receives Fulbright, IEEE honors

Friedman

Well known among the elite designers of the world's fastest computer chips, Friedman had a hand in the design of Intel's groundbreaking gigahertz computer chip released earlier this year. The product was Intel's first chip to perform calculations at 1 billion times per second, more than 150 times faster than the first Pentium chips introduced just a few years ago.

Friedman leads a group of a dozen researchers at the Laboratory for High-Performance Integrated Circuit Design, where engineers solve many of the problems associated with designing high-speed computer chips. He also is an expert on a chip's interconnects, the sliver-thin linkages through which data on a chip flows from location to location.

In the Rochester area, Friedman has worked with Xerox Corp. to improve the electronic circuitry within a line of ink-jet printers and with Eastman Kodak Co. to design its digital cameras. He also directs the Center for Electronic Imaging Systems, which is funded by New York State. At the center, scientists and engineers from academe and industry work together on such technologies as medical imaging and image compression.

Friedman will use the Fulbright Award to teach a graduate course and to develop a research capability in high-performance integrated circuits at the Technion in Israel next year.

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