MIT Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science

Boning, Freeman, and Teller Named to Career Development Chairs

May 29, 1997

To: EECS Faculty and Staff

From: Paul Penfield, Jr.

Date: May 29, 1997

Subject: Three Faculty Named to Career Development Chairs

I am pleased to tell you that three department faculty have recently received career development professorship appointments: Duane Boning to the ITT Professorship, Denny Freeman to the Keck Professorship, and Seth Teller to the X-Consortium Professorship.

Duane Boning's research area is semiconductor manufacturing, and his personal contributions have included the use of computation to support the simulation and control of semiconductor processes and equipment. He has taught 6.001 several times since joining the faculty in 1992, and lectured it in Fall 1996. His promotion to Associate Professor was recently announced.

The ITT chair was established in 1981 by a gift from ITT, to provide support for promising young faculty members in our department. Previous chairholders have been Bert Halstead, Bill Dally, Tom Knight, Dave Gifford, Jesús del Alamo, and most recently Greg Wornell.

Denny Freeman has developed extensive and highly effective instrumentation for visualizing the motion of very small structures, both biological and man-made. You may have seen his presentations at the RLE 50th anniversary celebration or the EECS Visiting Committee dinner this spring. His teaching, for both EECS and HST, includes being co-in charge of 6.021J.

The W. M. Keck Foundation Career Development Professorship was established in 1983 to support promising junior faculty in the field of biomedical engineering. Denny is the first recipient from EECS; previous chairholders have been Alan Nelson (Nuclear Engineering), William Durfee (Mechanical Engineering), Chris Atkeson (Brain and Cognitive Sciences) and Jacquelyn Yanch (Nuclear Engineering).

Seth Teller joined the EECS faculty in 1994. His research interests include computer graphics, computational geometry, machine vision, illumination engineering, and other aspects of computing. His teaching has included 6.837 Computer Graphics.

The X-Consortium Professorship promotes academic interest in human-computer interfaces. It was established by the X Consortium, which was centered in LCS and coordinated the development of the X Windows system. The only previous holder of this chair has been Michael Hawley.