Jon T. Butler

Jon T. Butler received the B.E.E. and M.Engr. degrees from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, in 1966 and 1967, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree from The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, in 1973. From 1987 until 2010, he was a Professor at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California. From 1974 to 1987, he was at Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois. He is now a Distinguished Professor Emeritus. During that time he served two periods of leave at the Naval Postgraduate School, first as a National Research Council Senior Postdoctoral Associate (1980–1981) and second as the NAVALEX Chair Professor (1986–1987). He served one period of leave as a foreign visiting professor at the Kyushu Institute of Technology, Iizuka, Japan. His research interests include logic optimization, multiple valued logic, and reconfigurable computing. He has served on the editorial boards of the IEEE Transactions on Computers, Computer, and the IEEE Computer Society Press. He has served as the editor-in-chief of Computer and the IEEE Computer Society Press. He received the Award of Excellence, the Outstanding Contributed Paper Award, and a Distinctive Contributed Paper Award for papers presented at the International Symposium on Multiple-Valued Logic. He received the Distinguished Service Award, two Meritorious Awards, and nine Certificates of Appreciation for service to the IEEE Computer Society. He is a Life Fellow of the IEEE.