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AMD Technical Forum & Exposition 2008 - Keynote Speaker Biographies
WILLIS HENDLEY
Vice President, Graphics Products Group, AMD Canada
Willis Hendley is the vice president of Platform Engineering in the Graphics Products Group at AMD. Willis is responsible for desktop and mobile board engineering, channel deployment engineering and application engineering groups, including hardware qualification and diagnostic engineering.
Prior to joining AMD, Willis served as a director of engineering at Sun Microsystems Inc., where he managed a number of engineering functions for the design and development of entry and mid-range enterprise servers and related chipsets. He also worked in the design engineering groups at Hewlett-Packard and Gould Electronics Inc.
Willis earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science and Cybernetics at Reading University in the United Kingdom. |
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DR. KEN GOODSON
Vice Chair with the Mechanical Engineering Department, Stanford University
Ken Goodson is Professor and Vice Chair with the Mechanical Engineering Department at Stanford, where he has been on the faculty since 1994. He received the doctorate from MIT in Mechanical Engineering (1993) and spent two years with the Materials Group at Daimler-Benz AG.
Goodson's Stanford research group includes 18 students, research associates, and consulting faculty who are studying thermal transport phenomena relevant for electronic systems, with a focus on those occurring with very small length and time scales. Prof. Goodson has authored or co-authored more than 150 journal and conference papers and five book chapters. His group has been recognized through the ONR Young Investigator Award, the NSF CAREER Award, the Journal of Heat Transfer Outstanding Reviewer Award (1999), a JSPS Visiting Professorship at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (1996), as well as Best Paper Awards at SEMI-THERM, the Multilevel Interconnect Symposium, and SRC TECHCON.
Prof. Goodson is a co-founder and former CTO of Cooligy, which develops microfluidic cooling technology for computers. |
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