The following university colleagues endorse the messages and sentiments captured in this document:

Deji Akinwande, Temple Foundation Endowed Professorship No. 1, University of Texas at Austin

Kaustav Banerjee, Professor, University of California Santa Barbara

Paul R. Berger, Professor, The Ohio State University

Richard B. Brown, H. E. Thomas Presidential Endowed Dean, The University of Utah

Srabanti Chowdhury, Associate Professor, Stanford University

John Dallesasse, Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Suman Datta, Stinson Professor of Nanotechnology, University of Notre Dame

Patrick Fay, Professor, University of Notre Dame

Massimo Fischetti, Texas Instruments Distinguished Chair in Nanoelectronics, University of Texas at Dallas

Daniel M. Fleetwood, Olin H. Landreth Professor of Engineering, Vanderbilt University

Michael P. Flynn, Professor, University of Michigan

Paul Franzon, Cirrus Logic Distinguished Professor, North Carolina State University

Supratik Guha, Professor, University of Chicago, Senior Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory

Ramesh Harjani, E. F. Johnson Professor, University of Minnesota

Evelyn Hu, Tarr-Coyne Professor of Applied Physics and of Electrical Engineering, Harvard University

Subramanian S. Iyer, Distinguished Chancellor’s Professor & Charles P. Reames Endowed Chair, University of California Los Angeles

Thomas N. Jackson, Robert E. Kirby Chair Professor of Electrical Engineering, Penn State University

Debdeep Jena, David E. Burr Professor of Engineering, Cornell University

Jerzy Kanicki, Professor, University of Michigan

Tsu-Jae King Liu, Dean and Roy W. Carlson Professor of Engineering, University of California, Berkeley

Steve Koester, Louis John Schnell Professor, University of Minnesota

Santosh Kurinec, Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology

Ioannis (John) Kymissis, Kenneth Brayer Professor of Electrical Engineering, Columbia University

Mark E. Law, Distinguished Professor, University of Florida

Xiuling Li, Temple Foundation Endowed Professorship No. 3, University of Texas at Austin

Leda Lunardi, Professor, North Carolina State University

Mark Lundstrom, Don and Carol Scifres Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University

Omar Manasreh, Professor, University of Arkansas

Durgamadhab Misra, Professor, New Jersey Institute of Technology

Kenneth O, Texas Instruments Distinguished University Chair, The University of Texas at Dallas

Anand Raghunathan, Silicon Valley Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Purdue University

Steven A. Ringel, Distinguished University Professor, Neal A. Smith Professor of Electrical Engineering, The Ohio State University

Sean Rommel, Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology

Elyse Rosenbaum, Melvin and Anne Louise Hassebrock Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Sayeef Salahuddin, TSMC Distinguished Professor, University of California Berkeley

Sachin Sapatnekar, Distinguished McKnight University Professor, Robert and Marjorie Henle Chair, University of Minnesota

Davood Shahrjerdi, Associate Professor, New York University

Marek Skowronski, Professor, Carnegie Mellon University

Mark Somerville, Provost, Olin College

James Sturm, Stephen R. Forrest Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University

Ganesh Subbarayan, Professor, Purdue University

Madhavan Swaminathan, John Pippin Chair in Microsystems Packaging & Electromagnetics, Georgia Tech

Massood Tabib-Azar, USTAR Professor, The University of Utah

Naveen Verma, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Princeton University

Robert M. Wallace, Professor and Erik Jonsson Distinguished Chair, The University of Texas at Dallas

H.-S. Philip Wong, Willard R. and Inez Kerr Bell Professor in the School of Engineering, Stanford University

Qiangfei Xia, Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Huili Grace Xing, Associate Dean on Research and Graduate Studies and William L. Quackenbush Professor of ECE & MSE, Cornell University

J. Joshua Yang, Professor, University of Southern California

David Zubia, Professor, University of Texas El Paso

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