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Contributors

ART DELAGRANGE, when he was young, took his electric train apart and
reassembled it by himself. Since that day, it has not run. He attended
MIT, where he studied digital circuitry, receiving a BS/MS in electrical
engineering in 1961/62. During his graduate year he worked on a hybrid
digital/analog computer. It did not revolutionize the industry. Beginning
as a co-op student, he worked for 33 years for the Naval Surface Warfare
Center in Silver Spring, Maryland. Among his other achievements are a
PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland, ten
patents, and 23 articles in the open literature. Retired from the govern-
ment, he works for Applied Technology and Research in Burtonsville,
Maryland. Art lives in Mt. Airy, Maryland, with his wife, Janice, and his
cat, Clumsy. His hobbies are cars, boats, sports, music, and opening
packages from the wrong end.

RICHARD P. FEYNMAN was professor of physics at the California Institute
of Technology. He was educated at MIT and Princeton, and worked on
the Manhattan Project during World War II. He received the 1965 Nobel
Prize in Physics for work in quantum electrodynamics. His life and style
have been the subject of numerous biographies. He was an uncommonly
good problem solver, with notable ability to reduce seemingly complex
issues to relatively simple terms. His Feynman Lectures on Physics, pub-
lished in the 60s, are considered authoritative classics. He died in 1988,
BARRIE GILBERT has spent most of his life designing analog circuits,
beginning with four-pin vacuum tubes in the late 1940s. Work on speech
encoding and synthesis at the Signals Research and Development Estab-
lishment in Britain began a love affair with the bipolar transistor that
shows no signs of cooling off. Barrie joined Analog Devices in 1972,
where he is now a Division Fellow working on a wide variety of 1C prod-
ucts and processes while managing the Northwest Labs in Beaverton,
Oregon. He has published over 40 technical papers and been awarded 20
patents. Barrie received The IEEE Outstanding Achievement Award in
1970, was named an IEEE Fellow in 1984, and received the IEEE Solid-
State Circuits Council Outstanding Development Award in 1986. For
recreation, Barrie used to climb mountains, but nowadays stays home and
tries to write music in a classical style for performance on a cluster of
eight computer-controlled synthesizers and other toys.
DOUG GRANT received a BSEE degree from the Lowell Technological
Institute (now University of Massachusetts-Lowell) in 1975. He joined
Analog Devices in 1976 as a design engineer and has held several positions
in engineering and marketing prior to his current position as marketing
manager for RF products. He has authored numerous papers and articles on
mixed-signal and linear circuits, as well as his amateur radio hobby.

BILL GROSS is a design manager for Linear Technology Corporation,
heading a team of design engineers developing references, precision

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