David Messerschmitt

Education

University of Michigan.

Career

He retired from University of California Berkeley in 2005. At present he is conducting research at Berkeley, is a visiting professor in the Software Business Laboratory at the Helsinki University of Technology, and is doing research on interstellar communications at the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute. His notable past research includes the advancement of digital transmission systems, including contributions that made digital telephony possible over the existing telephone network, the use of Very-large-scale integration to realize functions in the telephone network, and Very-large-scale integration architectures to solve signal processing challenges.

His work has increasingly been devoted to software.

In 1984 Messerschmitt wrote Blosim, a software-based block diagram simulation system for digital signal processing simulations. He also contributed to a successor to Blosim called Ptolemy, which is still being actively developed and used.

When the University of California Berkeley School of Information was created he co-founded courses on network applications and strategic technology, and later served as interim dean of the school. His research interests and curriculum development for the past decade have been largely devoted to the business of software and economics of the software industry.

Messerschmitt graduated with a Bachelor of Surgery in electrical engineering from the University of Colorado in 1967, and received his Master of Surgery and Doctor of Philosophy in computer, information, and control engineering from the University of Michigan in 1971.

He was a Bell Labs researcher until 1977, when he left to take an academic position at Berkeley. In 2007 Messerschmitt co-founded the Software business community (SWBC) in cooperation with the Helsinki University of Technology.

Achievements

• In 1999 Messerschmitt received the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Alexander Graham Bell Meda

Works

• Other Work

  • Books Honig, M.L. David G. Messerschmitt (1984). Adaptive Filters: Structures, Algorithms and Applications (The International Series in Engineering and Computer Science).
    
    Springer. . Messerschmitt, David G. (1999). Networked Applications: A Guide to the New Computing Infrastructure. Morgan Kaufmann. . Messerschmitt, David G. (2000).
    
    Understanding Networked Applications: A First Course. Morgan Kaufmann. . Barry, John R. Edward A. Lee

  • David G. Messerschmitt (2003).
    
    Digital Communication: Third Edition. Springer. . Messerschmitt, David G. Edward A. Lee (2005).
    
    Software Ecosystem: Understanding an Indispensable Technology and Industry. The MIT Press. .

Membership

He is also an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering of the United States.