Malcolm R. Currie
Malcolm R. Currie | |
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Born | Malcolm Roderick Currie March 13, 1927 |
Died | April 18, 2021 | (aged 94)
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
Spouse(s) | Sunya Lofsky (1951–?) Barbara L. Dyer (m.1977) |
Children | 3 |
Awards | IEEE Founders Medal (1995) |
Malcolm Roderick Currie (March 13, 1927 – April 18, 2021) was an American engineer and former executive.[1]
Currie was born in
From 1973 to 1977, he served as the United States Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. In 1988, he was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to serve as a Member of the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee.[4] He married Sunya Lofsky in 1951 and with her had three children. In 1977, he married Barbara Dyer.[5] He received the IEEE Founders Medal in 1995 "for technical and managerial leadership in the electronics industry".[6]
Dr. Currie was also instrumental in legislatively creating the Federal Low Speed Electric Bicycles Laws (LSEBs), and moving control away from the NHTSA. Dr. Currie's efforts, in partnership with Malcolm Bricklin, resulted in the first ever Federal ebike laws.[7]
17 days before Dr. Currie died, he had a short video taken of him saying that “There are aliens” [1]. The video was posted on YouTube on 1 April, and the uploader later admitted in the comments that it was an April Fools’ joke.
Dr. Currie died on April 18, 2021.[8]
References
- ^ "IEEE Membership Directory". 2001.
- ^ "World Who's who in Science: A Biographical Dictionary of Notable Scientists from Antiquity to the Present". 1968.
- ^ "Currie, Malcolm". Archived from the original on December 28, 2016.
- ^ "Appointment of Malcolm R. Currie as a Member of the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee | the American Presidency Project".
- ISBN 9780837971001.
- ^ "THE INSTITUTE OF ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS, INC. (IEEE) | Aviation Week Network".
- ^ "HR727 Federal E-Bike Laws". In this house committee testimony, Dr. Currie describes the purpose and intention behind the federal law: "CPAC Video Testimony of Dr. Currie's E-Bike Law".
- ^ "In memoriam: Aerospace industry pioneer and USC Trustee Malcolm Currie". 23 April 2021.