Robert Spence

Personal

Born 11 July 1933 in Hull, England

Appointments (in reverse sequence)

2007- Honorary Professor, University of Waikato, New Zealand

2003- Visiting Professor, Business School, University of Manchester

2002 Visiting Erskine Fellow, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

2000- Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Investigator, Imperial College

London

1997-1999 Head, Department of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Imperial

College London

1984-2000 Professor of Information Engineering, Department of Electrical &

Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London

1985-1990 Founder Director and Chairman, Interactive Solutions Ltd, London

1968-1984 Reader, Department of Electrical Engineering, Imperial College

1986 Visiting Professor, Nanjing Institute of Technology, China

1969 Visiting Professor, University of Ljubljana, Yugoslavia

1962-1968 Lecturer, Department of Electrical Engineering, Imperial College

1961-1962 Lecturer (part-time) University of Rochester, New York, USA

1958-1959 Research Assistant, Imperial College London

1950-1951 Youth-in-Training, Hull Corporation Telephones, Hull, England

Qualifications, degrees

1954 BSc (Engineering) University of London (External)

1955 DIC Diploma of Imperial College

1959 PhD (Engineering) University of London

1983 DSc (Engineering) University of London (Higher Doctorate)

1997 DrRCA Royal College of Art (Higher Doctorate)

Honours, distinctions

1976 FIEEE (Fellowship of the IEEE)

1989 FCGI (Fellowship of the City & Guilds of London Institute)

1990 FREng (Fellowship of the Royal Academy of Engineering, equivalent to

membership of the US National Academy of Engineering)

1995 Officier dans l’Ordre du Palme Academique (Conferred by the President of

France)

1999 Golden Jubilee Award, IEEE Circuits & Systems Society

Editorships

1975-1982 Editor, IEE Proceedings Part G (Electronic Circuits & Systems): new

journal in 1975

1973-1975 Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems

1980-1983 Founding Editor, books on the CAD of Electronic Circuits, Elsevier

2001- Associate Editor, Information Visualization (new journal in 2002)