Abstract :
Timothy O. Dickson, the recipient of the first annual VLSI Circuits Symposium Best Student Paper Award for “A 2.5-V 40-Gb/s Decision Circuit Using SiGe BiCMOS Logic,” was presented with a monetary gift and a certificate by Dr. Bruce Gieseke, the 2004 Program Chair (photo, left), and was honored as a special guest at the opening session of the 2005 meeting in Kyoto, Japan last June, when his award was announced.