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He was born in Zurich, Switzerland.
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Carlo Heinrich Sequin
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Séquin is recognized as one of the pioneers in processor design. Séquin has worked with computer graphics, geometric modelling, and on the development of computer aided design (Computer-aided Design) tools for circuit designers. Séquin is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery.
Séquin holds the Baccalaureate type C (in Mathematics and Science), Basel, Switzerland (1960), the Diploma in Experimental Physics, University of Basel, Switzerland (1965), and a Doctor of Philosophy in Experimental Physics, from the Institute of Applied Physics, Basel (1969).
Having received his doctorate, Séquin went on to work at the Institute of Applied Physics in Basel on the interface physics of metal–oxide–semiconductor transistors and problems of applied electronics in the field of cybernetic models. From 1970 to 1976 Séquin worked at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New Jersey on the design and investigation of charge-coupled devices for imaging and signal processing applications.
While at Bell Telephone Laboratories he was introduced to computer graphics in lectures given by Ken Knowlton. In 1977 Séquin joined the Faculty in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department (Electrical Engineering and Computer Science) at Berkeley where he introduced the concept of RISC processors with David A. Patterson in the early 1980s.
He was head of the Computer Science Division from 1980 to 1983.
Since then he has worked extensively on computer graphics, geometric modelling, and on the development of computer aided design (Computer-aided Design) tools for circuit designers, architects, and for mechanical engineers. Séquin"s expertise in computer graphics and geometric design have led to his involvement with sculptors of abstract geometric art Doctor Séquin is a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)), a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and has been elected to the Swiss Academy of Engineering Sciences.
Since 2001 he has been Associate Dean, Capital Projects, at Berkeley’s College of Engineering.
