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IEEE Day – Switzerland & Italy Joint IEEE Day online celebration
October 6, 2020 @ 18:00 - 20:30 CEST
IEEE Day – Switzerland & Italy Joint IEEE Day online celebration
We have the pleasure to Invite you to join us in celebrating IEEE Day.
In this occasion Italy and Switzerland Section together with organisation unit prepared for you a program bridging the past and the future.
The Zoom Session details will be provided to the registered attendees.
The program is as follow :
18:00-18:10 Opening Session
The chair of Switzerland and Italy Section will introduce the session
18:10-19:10 : The microchip revolution
Representatives of the Life Members and History activities of Switzerland and Italy brought up a session around the theme of The microchip revolution.
– It is our great pleasure to convey a meeting with the participation of
1. Luc-Olivier Bauer and Marshall Wilder authors of the book
“The Microchip Revolution: A brief history“.
The Book is available online and we encourage you to read.
The book was dedicated to the memory of Dr.Jean Amédée Hoerni (1924-1997), a Swiss Geneva born Scientist expatriated first to Cambridge, then Caltech, hired by Bill Shockley at his Mountain View Labs, who become the only non American partner of the “traitorous eight engineers” founders in 1957 of Fairchild Semiconductors in Palo Alto.
He filed the fundamental patent on the Planar Process there in 1959.
And subsequently together with Bob Noyce the patent on silicon integrated circuits.
Also know as as silicon chips, e.g. microchips. The rest is history!
2. Bruno Murari of ST-Microelectronics
Will present a contribuiton on BCD technology entitled Multiple Silicon Technologies on a Chip.
From research to a successful industry standard
The session will be interactive and moderated by Hugo Wyss From the Swiss Life Members Section.
Togerther With Mathier Coustans & Taekwang Jang From the Solid State chapter Switzerland
19:15-20:15 : My research in 5 miuntes.
Bridging the past and the future.
Student branch and Young Professional are arranging short pitch presenting on going research.
20.15-20.20 Closing Session
Hosts
- Switzerland Section
- Italy Section
- Switzerland Section Affinity Group, LM
- Italy Section Affinity Group, LM
- Switzerland Section Chapter,SSC37
- Italy Section Affinity Group, YP
- Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Registration
- Starts 15 September 2020 10:00 PM
- Ends 06 October 2020 05:50 PM
- All times are Europe/Zurich
- No Admission Charge