2010 Hall of Fame Recipients [print page]
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Mr. Richard J. Elkus, Jr.
Author of "Winner Take All: How Competitiveness Shapes the Fate of Nations"
Director Lam Research and Member of the Board of Trustees of The Scripps Research Institute
Elkus spent the first decade of his career at Ampex Corporation. As manager of the Educational and Industrial Products Division he wrote the original product plan for the home video recorder and headed the team that introduced the VCR to the world in 1970.
He served as chief executive and on the board of several high-tech companies: including Executive Vice President and General Manager of Geometrics, Inc., Director and Chairman of Pacific Measurements and Integrated Systems, Inc., Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of Prometrix Corporation, Director and Vice Chairman of Tencor Instruments, Director of KLA-Tencor, Director of OnTrak Systems and Director of Lam Research, In addition he served as a Director of Tomex Corporation, Virage Logic, SOPRA-SA, and Cameca-France.
His professional affiliations, past and present, include serving as Chairman of the Selection Committee of the National Science & Technology Medals Foundation, member of the Board of Directors and executive committee of the National Science and Technology Medals foundation, member of the Board of the American Electronics Association, member of the Board of trustees for The Scripps Research Institute, member of the Board of Trustees of the Palo Alto Medical Foundation, member of the University of California (UC) President’s Board on Science and Innovation, and Board of Trustees UC Merced Foundation, Chairman of the National Science Foundation Panel on High-Definition Products and Systems, Co-Chairman of the American Electronics Association Committee on High-Definition Television, Vice Chairman of Government Policies Committee of the Defense Science Board and member of the Board of International Counselors for the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Dr. Alan M. Title
Director/Senior Fellow of Lockheed Martin Space Systems
Stanford-Lockheed Institute for Space Research
Dr. Alan M. Title was born in Los Angeles and went to local schools and attended UCLA as an undergraduate. After graduating with a degree in Mathematics he attended Columbia University in NYC for a year and then transferred to the Caifornia Institute of Technology and graduated in 1966 with a PhD in Physics. Upon graduation he was a National Research Fellow at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, MA. After a year he became a Research Fellow at Harvard University where he was responsible for the development of the optical solar telescopes on Skylab.
Dr. Title joined Lockheed in 1971 to take over the direction of its Solar Obervatory. Except for 6 months in 1989 where he was a visiting Professor at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany and 6 months in 1993 where he was a visiting Professor at Tokyo University, Japan, he has remained at Lockheed Martin as leader of the solar group. In 1994 Professor Phillip Scherer and Dr. Title formed the Stanford-Lockheed Institute for Space Research.