1. Donald Oscar Pederson was an American professor of electrical engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, and one of the designers of SPICE, a simulator for integrated circuits that has been universally used as a teaching tool and in the everyday work of circuits engineers.
Donald Pederson attended Fergus Falls Public Schools in Fergus Falls, Minnesota during which time he built his first crystal radio by using junkyard finds and spare parts which were given by his uncle and cousin.
Donald Pederson graduated high school at age 17 and entered Iowa State College in the autumn of 1943, but then left for the military during World War II.
Donald Pederson served as a private in the US Army in Austria, Germany, France and the Philippines from 1943 to 1946.
Donald Pederson then attended Stanford University for graduate school, where he received a master's degree in electrical engineering in 1949 and a Ph.
Donald Pederson remained at Stanford as a researcher in the university's electronics research lab.
In 1955, Donald Pederson joined the faculty of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences of the University of California, Berkeley as an assistant professor of electrical engineering.
Donald Pederson retired in 1991, but continued to teach part-time.
Donald Pederson died on December 25,2004, in Concord, California, of complications from Parkinson's disease.
Donald Pederson was a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Sciences.
Donald Pederson was a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.