# David G. Messerschmitt

### Research Areas

- Information, Data, Network, and Communication Sciences (IDNCS)
- Signal Processing (SP)
- Business and economics issues in the software industry

## Biography

David G. Messerschmitt is the Roger A. Strauch Professor Emeritus of EECS at UC Berkeley. He has served as the Acting Dean of School of Information Management and Systems and Chair of the EECS Department, and prior to 1977 he was with AT&T Bell Laboratories. Current research focuses on interstellar communications with application to interstellar space exploration and the search for technosignatures of alien civilizations. He is currently active in the StarShot Project for exploration of nearby stars sponsored by the Breakthrough Foundation. He is the co-author of Software Ecosystem: Understanding an Indispensable Technology and Industry (MIT Press, 2003), author of Understanding Networked Applications (Morgan-Kaufmann, 1999), and co-author of a widely used textbook Digital Communications (Kluwer, 1993). He is a co-founder and former Director of TCSI Corporation (now a division of Rocket Software), and has served on the Advisory Boards of the Fisher Center for Management & Information Technology in the Haas School of Business and the Directorate for Computer and Information Sciences and Engineering at the National Science Foundation. He has served as a member of the NSF Blue Ribbon Panel on Cyberinfrastructure, co-chaired a National Research Council (NRC) study on the future of information technology research, and served on the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board of NRC. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, a Member of the National Academy of Engineering, and a recipient of the IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal recognizing "exceptional contributions to the advancement of communication sciences and engineering".

## Education

- 1971, PhD, Computer Information and Control Engineering, University of Michigan
- 1967, BS, Electrical Engineering, University of Colorado

## Selected Publications

- D. G. Messerschmitt, P. Lubin, and I. Morrison, "Challenges in Scientific Data Communication from Low-mass Interstellar Probes," The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, vol. 249, no. 2, pp. 36, Aug. 2020.
- D. G. Messerschmitt, P. Lubin, and I. Morrison, "Technological Challenges in Low-mass Interstellar Probe Communication," arXiv preprint arXiv:2001.09987, Nov. 2019.
- D. G. Messerschmitt, "Rethinking components: From hardware and software to systems," IEEE Proceedings, vol. 96, no. 7, pp. 1473-96, July 2007.
- D. G. Messerschmitt and C. Szyperski, Software Ecosystem: Understanding an Indispensable Technology and Industry, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003.
- J. R. Barry, E. A. Lee, and D. G. Messerschmitt, Digital Communication, 3rd ed., Boston, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.
- D. G. Messerschmitt, Understanding Networked Applications: A First Course, The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Networking, San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 2000.
- D. G. Messerschmitt, Networked Applications: A Guide to the New Computing Infrastructure, San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann, 1999.
- D. G. Messerschmitt, "The convergence of communications and computing: What are the implications today?," Proc. IEEE, vol. 84, no. 8, pp. 1167-1186, Aug. 1996.
- E. A. Lee and D. G. Messerschmitt, Digital Communication, 2nd ed., Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994.
- J. T. Buck, S. Ha, E. A. Lee, and D. G. Messerschmitt, "Ptolemy: A framework for simulating and prototyping heterogeneous systems," Intl. J. Computer Simulation, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 155-182, April 1994.
- D. G. Messerschmitt, "Synchronization in digital system design," IEEE J. Selected Areas of Communications, vol. 8, no. 8, pp. 1404-1419, Oct. 1990.
- K. K. Parhi and D. G. Messerschmitt, "Pipeline interleaving and parallelism in recursive digital filters--Part I: Pipelining using scattered look-ahead and decomposition," IEEE Trans. Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, vol. 37, no. 7, pp. 1099-1117, July 1989.
- E. A. Lee and D. G. Messerschmitt, "Synchronous data flow," Proc. IEEE, vol. 75, no. 9, pp. 1235-1245, Sep. 1987.
- E. A. Lee and D. G. Messerschmitt, "Pipeline interleaved programmable DSPs: Architecture," IEEE Trans. Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, vol. 35, no. 9, pp. 1320-1333, Sep. 1987.
- E. A. Lee and D. G. Messerschmitt, "Static scheduling of synchronous data flow programs for digital signal processing," IEEE Trans. Computers, vol. C-3, no. 1, pp. 24-35, Jan. 1987.
- M. L. Honig and D. G. Messerschmitt, Adaptive Filters: Structures, Algorithms, and Applications, The Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science; SECS 1, Boston: Kluwer, 1984.
- D. G. Messerschmitt, "Echo cancellation in speech and data transmission," IEEE J. Selected Areas of Communications, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 283-297, March 1984.
- O. Agazzi, D. G. Messerschmitt, and D. A. Hodges, "Nonlinear echo cancellation of data signals," IEEE Trans. Communications, vol. 30, no. 11, pp. 2421-2433, Nov. 1982.
- D. G. Messerschmitt, "Frequency detectors for PLL acquisition in timing and carrier recovery," IEEE Trans. Communications, vol. 27, no. 9, pp. 1288-1295, Sep. 1979.
- D. Duttweiler, J. Mazo, and D. G. Messerschmitt, "An upper bound on the error probability in decision-feedback equalization," IEEE Trans. Information Theory, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 490-497, July 1974.

## Awards, Memberships and Fellowships

- Berkeley Citation, 2005
- SPS 2000 Millennium Medal, 2000
- IEEE Alexander Graham Bell Medal, 1999
- SPS Technical Achievement Award, 1993
- National Academy of Engineering (NAE) Member, 1990
- IEEE ComSoc Outstanding Young Engineer Award, 1984
- Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Fellow, 1983