JOSEPH W. GOODMAN
Joseph
W. Goodman received the A.B. Degree in Engineering and Applied Physics
from Harvard
University
in 1958, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering
from Stanford
University
in 1960 and 1963, respectively.
From
1958 through 1962, he was a Research Assistant in the Stanford
Electronics Laboratories. During 1962 and 1963, he was a post-doctoral
Fellow at the Norwegian Defense Research Establishment, under the
auspices of the Royal Norwegian Society for Scientific and Industrial
Research. He returned to Stanford in 1963 as a Research Associate, a
position he held until 1967, when he was appointed Assistant Professor
of Electrical Engineering at Stanford. He was promoted to Associate
Professor in 1969 and to Professor in 1972. In 1988 he was appointed
Chairman of the Department
of Electrical Engineering
and named the William E. Ayer Professor of Electrical
Engineering. In 1996 he stepped down as Chairman and assumed the
position Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Academic Affairs in the School
of Engineering . Fot
the duration of the Summer of 1999, he served as Acting Dean of
Engineering. Prof. Goodman assumed Emeritus status on January 1, 2000.
During the academic year 1973-1974 he was a Visiting Professor at the
Intitut d'Optique in Orsay, France. In the summer of 1984 he was
the William Girling Watson Traveling Scholar at Sydney University,
Sydney, Australia.
Dr.
Goodman has held a number of positions of responsibility in the optics
community. For the Optical
Society of America
(O.S.A.), he
has served as a Traveling Lecturer, as Vice Chairman and Chairman of
the Technical Group on Information Processing, as a member of the
Technical Council, as a member and Chairman of the Fellows Committee,
and as a member of the Ives Award Committee. He was elected a
Director-at-Large of the OSA for the years 1972-1974; he also served on
the Board of Directors ex-officio while he was Chairman of the
Publications Committee, and while he was Editor of the Journal of the
Optical Society of America (1978-1983). He was elected Vice President
of the OSA for 1990, served as President Elect in 1991, President in
1992, and Past President in 1993. He currently seves as a member
of the Nominating Committee and as a member of the Board of Directors
of the OSA Foundation.
For
the
Society
of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers
(S.P.I.E.), he
was elected to the Board of Governors for the years 1980-1982, and has
served as a member and Chairman of the Awards Committee, as a member of
the Nominating Committee, and as a member of the Technical Council. He
also served a second term as an elected Governor of the society for the
years 1988-1990.
For
the
Institute
of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (I.E.E.E.),
he
chaired an ad hoc Committee on Optical and Electro-Optical Systems in
1969, has served on the Editorial Board of the Proceedings of the
I.E.E.E. for the years 1979 and 1980, and has been a member of the
Education Medal Committee for 1987-1989.
His international activities include membership on the program
committees for a large number of international meetings. He was a
member of the U.S. delegation to the first and second U.S.-Japan
Seminars on Optical Data Processing and Holography, and a member of the
U.S. delegation to the first U.S.-U.S.S.R. seminar on optical data
processing. In 1979 he chaired the U.S. delegation to the first
U.S.-Argentina Seminar on Fourier Optics. In 1984 he was elected
to a three-year term as Vice President of the International Commission
for Optics (ICO), a commission affilated with the International Union
of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP). He served as President of
the ICO for the years 1988-1990, and Past President for 1991-1993.
He
has
served as a Director of several corporations, including Optivision,
Inc.
(for which he was a co-founder), ONI
Systems
(for which he was the founding Chairman of the Board), and E-TEK
Dynamics . He
served on the Board of Directors for Ondax,
Inc. from
its founding until December 2004, and until recently served as the
Chairman
of the Board of Nanoprecision Products, Inc., a company he co-founded.
He also serves on Technical Advisory Committees for several small
private photonics companies.
The
research contributions for which Dr. Goodman is best known are
(1) his pioneering work on the statistical properties of speckle
patterns, carried out in the early 1960's, (2) his contributions to
holography and optical information processing through the 60's, 70's
and 80's, and (3) his leadership in the 90's of a group that first
proposed the use of optics for solving interconnect problems in VLSI
systems, a topic of much current interest.
Dr.
Goodman is a Fellow of the OSA, the IEEE, and the SPIE. In 1971, he was
chosen recipient of the F.E. Terman award of the American Society for
Engineering Education. He received the 1983 Max Born award of the
Optical Society of America, for his contributions to physical optics,
and in particular to holography, synthetic aperture optics, image
processing, and speckle theory. He received the 1987 IEEE Education
medal for his contributions to Electrical Engineering education, the
1987 Dennis Gabor Award of the International Optical Engineering
Society (SPIE) for his contributions to holography, optical processing
and optical computing, the 1995 Esther Hoffman Beller Education medal
of the OSA, and the 1990 Frederick Ives Medal, the highest award of the
Optical Society of America. He was a member of the National Academy of
Engineering in 1987, and a Fellow of American Academy of Arts and
Sciences in 1996. Also in 1996, he received an honorary D.Sc. degree
from the University
of Alabama. He is
the recipient of the 2007 Gold Medal of the S.P.I.E., that society's
highest award. He
is the author of approximately 220 technical publications, including
the textbooks Introduction to
Fourier Optics (1968, Second Edition, 1996, Third Edition 2005);
Statistical Optics (1985);
(with R.M. Gray) Fourier Transforms:
An Introduction for Engineers (1995); and Speckle Phenomena in Optics: Theory and
Applications (2005). His first full-length publication (Proc.
I.E.E.E., Vol. 53, 1688 (1965)) was named a "Citation Classic" by the
Institute for Scientific Information.