Email: sherman@talkelab.ucsd.edu Phone: 858-534-3175 Fax: 858-534-2720 Address: University of California, San Diego Mail Code #0401 9500 Gilman Dr. La Jolla, CA, 92093-0401

Biography of Phil Sherman

After graduating from the University of Miami, Coral Gables, Fla Phil (Philip Sherman) worked for seven years in the Solid State Device Dept of the Bell Telephone Laboratories (BTL). He left BTL in 1968, worked for the Exploratory research Lab of Xerox Corp, General Dynamics, Hughes and other companies.

After seven years with Hughes he retired in 1987 at the age of 65. He worked in the field of electromechanical and optical engineering, magnetic and semicinductor memories, xerographic devices, fiber optics. etc. He holds four patents and is a proud possessor of a one dollar silver certificate bill given him at the time of being hired by BTL as a payment in full for all of his possible future contributions. One of his patents assigned to BTL was for a machine which significantly increased the production yields in fabrication of the piggy-back twistor wire used in the first electronically programmable magnetic memory for the new electronic switching system, which at that time began to replace mechanical swithching. Production facilities of Western Electric in Colombus, Ohio used these machines for a number of years during the initial stages of this undertaking.

In 1992 he joined as a volunteer the Mathematical Sciences Dept of the SDSU where he still works as an Adj Prof in the Robotics Lab. Concurrently, in 1994, he joined as a volunteer the AMES Dept and CMRR where he works as a Visiting Scholar. From 1995 he also works as a volunteer Biomedical Research Engineer in the Skeletal Muscle Physiology Laboratory on the premises of V A Hospital.

As a hobby he still attempts to build what he calls pre-prototypes of various gadgetry in the Machine Shop for the graduate students located in EB1. Ocasionally he composes verses in Russian,Spanish and English. He and his wife, to whom he is married for fifty-one years, like walking hand-in-hand on La Jolla beach. Phil is fairly knowledgeable in several slavic and romance languages and, with not too much success, is attempting to learn some chinese.