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William Linvill

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Nationality
  
American

Institutions
  
Stanford University

Field
  
Electrical engineering

Academic advisor
  
Ernst Guillemin

Fields
  
Electrical engineering

Doctoral advisor
  
Ernst Guillemin

Institution
  
Stanford University

Born
  
August 8, 1919 Kansas City, Missouri (
1919-08-08
)

Doctoral students
  
David Luenberger Bernard Widrow

Died
  
17 August 1980, Palo Alto, California, United States

Alma mater
  
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Similar
  
Ernst Guillemin, David Luenberger, Bernard Widrow

William Kirby Linvill (August 8, 1919 – August 17, 1980) was an American electrical engineer. He served as a professor at Stanford University from 1960 to 1980. He was the founder of the Institute in Engineering-Economic Systems at Stanford, which later became the Department of Engineering-Economic Systems, with Linvill as the first chair.

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