Died 2015 | Doctoral student Barbara J. Grosz | |
Dr. Martin H. Graham (12 July 1926 – 2015) was an American professor at the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department of the University of California at Berkeley.
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Biography
Martin Graham served in the U.S. Navy as an Electronic Technician Mate from 1944 to 1946. Then, he studied electrical engineering and became an instructor at the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, New York. In 1948, he received a M.Sc. degree from the Harvard University. He returned to the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn where he received his Ph.D. in 1952. After working at the Brookhaven National Laboratory as an engineer, he began an academic appointment at Rice University in 1957, eventually rising to the rank of Professor of Electrical Engineering and Director of the Computer Project. He left Rice in 1966 and was appointed Professor of Electrical Engineering at UC Berkeley that same year. He served as Associate Director of the Computer Center from 1966 to 1968, and Chair of the Computer Science Department from 1970 to 1972. He also served as Secretary of the Academic Senate from 1978 to 1980. He retired in 1993 but continued working from his office at Cory Hall on the UC Berkeley campus. Graham died in 2015.
Scientific work
In his early years, Graham was best known as project leader of the Rice Institute Computer. At the time, he was mainly system- and hardware-oriented, drawing from his practical experience as electronics technician and engineer. Graham changed his research focus in the 1960s to the general areas of biomedical instrumentation such as used for electrocardiograms or the galvanic skin reflex, but also of data transmission techniques. Numerous patents and publications resulted.