major in Computer Science and Engineering and Applied Science. In 1979, Lee was hired by Bell Labs, which paid for him to go to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned a Science Masters (SM) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science in 1980. He then moved back to New Jersey to work at the Bell Labs Holmdel Complex, where he met his future wife, Rhonda Righter. At Bell Labs, Lee worked on the world's first software-defined modem. In 1982, Lee returned to school to get a PhD in the EECS Department at UC Berkeley. In 1986, he finished his PhD and was hired to the faculty at Berkeley, where he has been ever since. In 2018, Lee retired from teaching to focus full-time on research and writing. Books The Coevolution: The Entwined Futures of Humans and Machines (2020) Plato and the Nerd: The Creative Partnership of Humans and Technology (2017) Introduction to Embedded Systems: A Cyber-Physical Systems Approach (2017) System Design, Modeling, and Simulation using Ptolemy II (2014) Digital Communication (1988,1994,2004) Structure and Interpretation of Signals and Systems (2003,2011) DSP Processor Fundamentals: Architectures and Features (1997) Software Synthesis from Dataflow Graphs (1996) Awards The Berkeley Citation, February, 2018. Outstanding Technical Achievement and Leadership Award from the IEEE Technical Committee on Real-Time Systems (TCRTS), 2016. Robert S. Pepper Distinguished Professorship, UC Berkeley, 2006. ASEE Frederick Emmons Terman Award, 1997. NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, 1997. External links Edward A. Lee's home page at UC Berkeley Ptolemy Project home page at UC Berkeley Edward A. Lee's complete publications Google Scholar listing Interviews and Debates TechNation, with Moira Gunn, December 7, 2017 Virtual Futures, with Luke Robert Mason, October 8, 2017 Tech Talk: Swarm Boxes, Semiconductor Engineering, March 18, 2015 Software Patent Debate, Computer History Museum, August 30, 2011 References 1957 births American electrical engineers Scientists at Bell Labs UC Berkeley College of Engineering alumni MIT School of Engineering alumni Living people Yale University alumni