Monday, April 20, 2020
Hello,
Sadly I just found out about Sonny's passing. I worked with Sonny at DARPA in 1995-1996, in the Ultrascale Computing Program. Sonny was brilliant and a visionary. He knew exactly who to engage as researchers and got the best and most brilliant in the business: Len Adleman at USC, Seth Lloyd at MIT, Carver Mead at Caltech, George Whitesides at MIT, Tom Knight at MIT, as well as funding the first ever government-sponsored DNA computing and quantum computing projects. He was way ahead of his time. Not only did Sonny make fundamental contributions in the semiconductor industry and chip design, but he spearheaded the first government effort that tried to look way beyond Moore's Law into the future. I learned so much from him and met so many fascinating people. I will miss him. The science and technology community has lost a bright light.
Nancy Forbes
