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and co-author of Electronic Components and Measurements. He has made a
twenty-lecture video course entitled Electronic Feedback Systems. He has served as
consultant to more than 90 organizations, and has eight patents awarded or in pro-
cess. For recreation, he plays with his toys, which include a large collection of
Lionel electric trains and a 1973 E-type Jaguar roadster.

ROD RUSSELL is president of Custom Linear Corp. He got turned on to analog elec-
tronics while serving in the U.S. Navy, where he repaired and maintained VHF and
TJHF transceivers. During his last semester at New Mexico State University, a pro-
fessor fleetingly mentioned that an operational amplifier had just been fabricated in
silicon. After obtaining his B.S., he joined Motorola Semiconductor and also
obtained his M.S.E.E. from Arizona State University. He says the vast number of
possibilities (some are called problems) in analog electronics is what makes it
interesting.

DAK SHEINGOLD received his B.S. with distinction from Worcester Polytechnic
Institute in 1948 and a M.S.E.E. from Columbia University in 1949. He then joined
George A. Philbrick Researches as their second engineer (the other being George A.
Philbrick). Dan eventually became vice president for marketing, and was present at
the development of the world’s first commercial differential plug-in operational
amplifier, the vacuum tube K2-W. He also served as editor of The Lightning
Empiricist while at Philbrick. In 1969, Dan joined Analog Devices as manager of
technical marketing. He’s currently involved in the writing and editing of their
popular Analog Dialogue magazine, and has developed an extensive list of tutorial
books on Analog’s technologies and products, including such cIassics as Analog-
Digital Conversion Handbook and the Transducer lnte$acing Handbook. He was
elected an IEEE Fellow in 1990. He and his wife Ann have two children, Mark
(an engineer) and Laura (a physician). Dan enjoys music, walking, running, cross-
country skiing, and has an airplane pitot’s license.

Mn:roN W-ILCOX has been interested in electronics since high school. He received
his B.S.E.E. in 1968 and his M.S.E.E. in 1971 from Arizona State University. From
1968 lo 1975 he was employed by Motorola as an analog design engineer designing
consumer linear integrated circuits. In 1975, Milt moved to National Semiconductor
where he was section head of an RF and video IC design group for over 14 years. He
currently heads a small group designing new power control ICs at Linear Technology
Corporation. Milt holds 25 patents, has authored seven technical papers, and con-
tinues to actively design.

SAMUEL WILENSKY was first exposed to Ohm’s Law at the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, where he received his B.S.E.E. He did graduate work at the M.I.T.
department of nuclear engineering. where his thesis project was the measurement
of non-elastic neutron cross-sections using a pulsed neutron source (i.e., the
Rockefeller Accelerator). Samuel was one of the founders of Hybrid Systems, now
Sypex. During the early years of Hybrid Systems, he became-of necessity--an
analog designer. His main efforts have been in the design of data conversion devices,
with detours into consumer products. He recently used his nuclear training to study
the effects of nuclear radiation on data conversion products. He enjoys playing
pick-up basketball, sailing, coaching youth soccer, being embarrassed by his son
and daughter on ski slopes, and supplying muscle for his wife’s gardening.

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