Biography

Eric W. Strid is CEO and cofounder of Cascade Microtech, Inc., a company which develops, manufactures, and markets wafer probes and probing systems worldwide. Eric created the first 18-, 26-, and 50-GHz wafer probes and the various other probes, holds over a dozen patents, and has published numerous technical papers. In 1987 he received the IEEE ARFTG Automated Measurements Technology Award, and in 1991 he received the IEEE MTT Society’s Microwave Applications Award for "Development of Microprobe Technology". Since 1996 he has contributed to the NEMI RF Components roadmapping committee, and in 2002 he served as Technical Program Chair for the IEEE International Microwave Symposium. Prior to Cascade, he designed gallium arsenide integrated circuits and microwave integrated circuits at Triquint Semiconductor, Tektronix, and Farinon Electric. He holds the SBEE degree from MIT (1974) and MSEE from UC Berkeley (1975).

Jim Hollenhorst has been with Agilent Laboratories since it split from Hewlett-Packard Labs in 1999. He currently serves as Director of the Molecular Technology Lab, which includes Agilent's research in life sciences, nanotechnology, and microelectromechanical systems. Since 1990 he has held several management jobs within HP Labs and Agilent Labs including leading the efforts in superconductivity and in electronics research. Prior to joining HP, he was with AT&T Bell Laboratories, where he worked on high-speed electronic devices, and heterostructure photodiodes and lasers.

Hollenhorst serves on several academic and industrial boards including advisory boards for the Stanford Center for Integrated Systems, the California Nanosystems Institute, and the American Institute of Physics (AIP) Corporate Associates. He is a member of the AIP Governing Board and on the committee for the European Physical Society's Agilent Europhysics Prize. Hollenhorst is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), holds a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Minnesota and a doctorate in physics from Stanford University.

Mark R. Pinto joined Applied Materials in January 2004 to lead the New Business and New Products Group where he is responsible for Applied’s technology direction and future product roadmaps along with developing new business opportunities. Previously Dr. Pinto spent 19 years with Bell Laboratories and the Lucent Microelectronics Group, later to become Agere Systems. Most recently he was a Vice President and General Manager of Agere product divisions engaged in network infrastructure ICs. Previously Dr. Pinto served as Agere’s CTO where he led all central IC and optoelectronics R&D programs including the former Bell Labs’ semiconductor technology and design research organizations that spun off with Agere. In 1995, Dr. Pinto was named a Bell Labs Fellow, the company’s highest technical honor, for his research work in semiconductor devices and simulation. Dr. Pinto received bachelor’s degrees from Rensselear, and a master’s degree and Ph.D. from Stanford. He has authored or co-authored more than 150 journal and professional conference papers and is a Fellow of the IEEE.