CANEUS 2009 Workshops

Stanley Williams

Hewlett-Packard, USA

R. Stanley Williams is an HP Senior Fellow at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories and founding Director (since 1995) of the HP Quantum Science Research (QSR) group. The QSR was established to prepare HP for the major challenges and opportunities ahead in electronic and photonic circuit technologies as features continue to shrink to the nanometer size scale, where quantum mechanics dominates. He received a B.A. degree in Chemical Physics in 1974 from Rice University and his Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from U. C. Berkeley in 1978. He was a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Labs from 1978-80 and a faculty member (Assistant, Associate and Full Professor) of the Chemistry Department at UCLA from 1980 - 1995. He is currently Adjunct Professor of Chemistry at UCLA and of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His primary scientific research during the past thirty years has been in the areas of solid-state chemistry and physics, and their applications to technology. This has evolved into the areas of nanostructures and chemically-assembled materials, with an emphasis on the thermodynamics of size and shape. Most recently, he has examined the fundamental limits of information and computing, which has led to his current research in molecular electronics.

He has received awards for scientific and academic achievement, including the 2000 Julius Springer Award for Applied Physics, the 2000 Feynman Prize in Nanotechnology, the Dreyfus Teacher-Scholar Award and the Sloan Foundation Fellowship. He was named to the inaugural Scientific American 50 Top Technology leaders in 2002, and the molecular electronics program he leads was named the Technology of the Year for 2002 by Industry Week magazine. He was a co-organizer and co-editor of the workshop and book "Vision for Nanotechnology in the 21st Century", respectively, that led to the establishment of the U. S. National Nanotechnology Initiative. He has been awarded 25 US patents with 40 more pending, has published over 230 papers in reviewed scientific journals, and has written general articles for technical and business publications. One of his patents was named as one of five that will "transform business and technology" by MIT's Technology Review in 2000. He has presented numerous plenary and invited lectures, including the 2003 Joseph Franklin lecture at Rice University, the 2004 Peter Debye Lectures at Cornell University and the 2004 Herman Bloch Lecture at the University of Chicago.