Inducted 2002

Mr. Miller came to the valley after serving as director of the Applied
Mathematics Division at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois,
where he went to work after receiving his doctorate in physics from
Purdue University in 1956. At the Argonne National Laboratory, Mr.
Miller conducted research in basic atomic physics and in computer
science. He was responsible for leading the computerization of
Argonne.

Mr. Miller was the last faculty member recruited to Stanford
University by the legendary Frederick Terman, who was then vice
president and provost of Stanford. Mr. Miller was recruited to help
form the Computer Science Department at Stanford and to direct the
Computation Group at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
(SLAC).

As vice president for research and later as vice president and
provost, Mr. Miller championed the establishment of the Office of
Technology Licensing, which has become the model for such
activities at other universities in the United States and abroad. In
1979 he was named the Herbert Hoover Professor of Public and
Private Management.

As president and CEO of SRI International, Mr. Miller opened SRI
to the Pacific Region, he established the spin-out and
commercialization program at SRI and established the David Sarnoff
Research Center (now the Sarnoff Corp.) as a for-profit subsidiary of
SRI. He became the chairman and CEO of the David Sarnoff Research Center.

Mr. Miller has received a number of awards and honors, including: Life Member of the National Academy of Engineering, 1987; Life Fellow IEEE, 1999; Fellow of the American Academy of the Arts and Science, 1980; Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1987; Stanford Computing Pioneer by the AFIPS History of Computing Committee, 1987; and the Frederic B. Whitman Award, United Way of the Bay Area, 1982.e wild in Namibia.