Awards, Honors & Professional Associations

Software-of-the-Year  First Place 

SOftware 1st Place
 1st Place, among Motorola's 200,000+ employees,
for Best Software Practices  Program.  The winning
software was the CorDex application for Bill's R&D group.   


Patent-of-The-Year    Finalist
    Motorola Logo
  Patent of the Year
 Bill's  patent 5, 930, 162  (Quantum Random Address Memory with Polymer Mixer and/or Memory)
was a finalist (top 3) in Motorola's Patent of the Year Program.  The competition included all Motorola patents.


Hardware Excellece

Chip Design Award
 Motorola Chip Design Excellence
Bill's innovative system and logic design for the MC6883 (a.k.a. "SAM") chip
made it the most profitable chip of all (the hundreds of) Motorola chips in the
same semiconductor technology.   


Patents
Distinguished Innovator Award Distinguished Motorola Innovator Award
Bill received this when his tenth patent issued.  
(See individual patent awards below).

Patent Awards

 Patent Plaque with individual "issued patent" Bars
for Bill's 19 issued US patents.  


Stock Options
Stock Options
 Motorola Stock Options for solving extremely complex semiconductor yield
issue with CorDex data mining.


Intel  (Excellence in Validation Software)
Intel Validation Award
 Quality Validation Contractor Award
Very rarely does Intel give awards such as this to contractors.
Yet, Bill's exceptional software validation work at Intel earned
this award, which was presented through Spherion Professional Services.


Optical Society of America Award
Optical Society Award
 The  optical Society of America presented this award to Bill and Joseph P. Rosbeck for their
pioneering R&D on Wavelength Division Modulation.  Bill and Joe designed and built a 6-foot-long,
low-pressure-excited-gas light modulator for data communications.     


US Navy Award
Navy Award
 The  US Navy presented this award to Bill and Joseph P. Rosbeck for their
pioneering R&D on Wavelength Division Modulation.  Bill and Joe designed and built a 6-foot-long,
low-pressure-excited-gas light modulator for multimedia communications.


Johns Hopkins University Award
Johns Hopkins Award
 Bill received this award from Johns Hopkins University for his design of
a real-time hardware and software system for hearing-impaired persons
to visually evaluate their speech production.  (Note: Bill's own hearing is excellent).   


Professional Associations
IEEE Logo IEEE  -Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
INNS Logo INNS -International Neural Network Society 
IAF Logo IAF    -International Association of Facilitators


Skills Transferable to Your Projects:
   Juggler • Bill's award-winning work ethic comes from his
his ever-present passion to make major contributions,
beyond what is expected.


Links to related material
  Links of Chain • INNS  -International Neural Network Society

• Johns Hopkins University

• Spherion Professional Services

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