Leon O. Chua | |
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 Chua at the NOLTA Symposium in 1993 | |
| Born | Leon Ong Chua June 28, 1936 |
| Nationality | Hoklo (by blood) / American (by domicile) |
| Citizenship | American |
| Alma mater | Mapúa Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign |
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| Children | 4, including Amy |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Electrical engineering Electronics and communication engineering Computer science |
| Institutions | University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | Nonlinear network analysis -- the parametric approach[1] |
| Doctoral advisor | Mac Van Valkenburg[1] |
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Leon Ong Chua (/ˈtʃwɑː/; Chinese: 蔡少棠; pinyin: Cài Shǎotáng; Wade–Giles: Ts'ai Shao-t'ang; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chhòa Siáu-tông; born June 28, 1936) is an American electrical engineer and computer scientist. He is a professor in the electrical engineering and computer sciences department at the University of California, Berkeley, which he joined in 1971. He has contributed to nonlinear circuit theory and cellular neural network theory.[2]
He is the inventor and namesake of Chua's circuit[3] one of the first and most widely known circuits to exhibit chaotic behavior, and was the first to conceive the theories behind, and postulate the existence of, the memristor.[4] Thirty-seven years after he predicted its existence, a working solid-state memristor was created by a team led by R. Stanley Williams at Hewlett Packard.[5][6]
Alongside Tamas Roska, Chua also introduced the first algorithmically programmable analog cellular neural network (CNN) processor.[7]
- ^ a b Leon O. Chua at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Chua, L.O. (October 1988). "Cellular neural networks: theory". IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems. CAS-35 (10). IEEE: 1257–1272. doi:10.1109/31.7600.
- ^ Matsumoto, Takashi (December 1984). "A Chaotic Attractor from Chua's Circuit" (PDF). IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems. CAS-31 (12). IEEE: 1055–1058. doi:10.1109/TCS.1984.1085459. Retrieved 2008-05-01.
- ^ Chua, Leon O. (September 1971). "Memristor - The Missing Circuit Element". IEEE Transactions on Circuit Theory. 18 (5): 507–519. doi:10.1109/TCT.1971.1083337.
- ^ "'Without Chua's circuit equations, you can't make use of this device,' says Williams. " Sally Addee (May 2008). "The Mysterious Memristor". IEEE Spectrum. Archived from the original on 2008-05-11.
- ^ R. Colin Johnson (2008-04-30). "'Missing link' memristor created: Rewrite the textbooks?". EE Times.
- ^ Roska, T.; Chua, L.O. (March 1993). "The CNN universal machine: an analogic array computer". IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Analog and Digital Signal Processing. 40 (3): 163–173. doi:10.1109/82.222815.