Academician Ernest S. Kuh will receive the Kirchhoff Award on May 26 at the annual 2009 IEEE Symposium on Circuits and Systems which is being held this year in Taipei. Dr. Kuh is being honored for his “contributions to Circuits and Systems, and Electronic Design Automation.”

Dr. Kuh is an engineer who has worked on Electric Circuit Theory and Computer-Aided Design for very-large-scale-integration (VLSI) Circuits and Systems. His most recent contributions include the development of timing-driven physical design tools for submicron integrated circuit (IC) and multichip modules (MCM), and an accurate and efficient circuit and interconnect simulator works which have yielded software programs useful for industrial and academic researchers. He holds the William S. Floyd, Jr. Professor Emeritus in Engineering and Professor in the Graduate School at the University of California, Berkeley.

The IEEE Kirchhoff Award honors the 19th Century German physicist Gustav Robert Kirchhoff who contributed to the fundamental understanding of electrical circuits, spectroscopy, and the emission of black-body radiation by heated objects. Each year, the IEEE headquarter selects one distinguished scholar, who has contributed the most in circuits and systems in the world. The IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) is the world's premier networking forum of researchers in the fields of theory, design and implementation of circuits and systems.

The 2009 IEEE ISCAS will be held in Taipei International Conference Center from 24 to 27 May 2009. This year it is sponsored by National Cheng Kung University and will focus on circuits and systems for human centric smart living Technologies and cover 19 technical fields, including VLSI design, power electronics, visual communications, mobile communications, multimedia systems, sensor interface, and biosystems, etc.