Title
Marek, Jiri oral history
Catalog Number
102738451
Type
Document
Description
Dr. Jiri Marek was born in the former Czechoslovakia but moved to Germany as a child when his family fled there after the Prague Spring. He studied electrical engineering at the University of Stuttgart and Stanford, and holds a Ph.D. from U. Stuttgart and the Stuttgart Max-Planck Institute. After working in San Jose, California as a postdoc at IBM and an R&D engineer at Hewlett-Packard he joined the Robert Bosch GmbH in Reutlingen, Germany in 1987. There he started and managed the company's MEMS (micro-electro-mechanical systems) activities and grew them into a multi-billion dolar business. He is now the senior vice president of Bosch's North American R&D Center with locations in Palo Alto, Pittsburgh, and Boston.
Date
2017-08-29
Contributor
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Marek, Jiri, Interviewee
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Steinbach, Gunter, Interviewer
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Publisher
Computer History Museum
Place of Publication
Mountain View, CA
Extent
21 p.
Format
PDF
Category
Transcription
Subject
Bosch, Robert; MEMS; automotive sensor; inertial sensor; gyroscope; pressure sensor; temperature sensor
Collection Title
CHM Oral History Collection
Credit
Computer History Museum
