Cardinal Warde

Cardinal Warde
Born (1945-07-14) July 14, 1945 (age 79)
Christ Church, Barbados
Alma materYale University
Stevens Institute of Technology
Harrison College
Known forOptoelectronics
Scientific career
InstitutionsMassachusetts Institute of Technology
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Cardinal Warde (born July 14, 1945) is a Professor of Electrical Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He works on optoelectronic materials for information processing, communications and holography. Warde is involved with education policy in the Caribbean, acting as a scientific advisor for the Government of Barbados and helping high school students access science education.

Early life and education

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Warde was born in Christ Church, Barbados.[1] His mother was Rosetta Irene Ward.[2] He attended St. Christopher's Primary School and Harrison College.[3] During school, Warde was involved with athletics.[3] He converted his father's carpentry shop into a chemistry laboratory, where he built rockets with his friends from high school.[3] Warde graduated from Harrison College in 1965, when he moved to America to start his undergraduate studies. Warde was a physics major at Stevens Institute of Technology, which he graduated in 1969.[3][4] Warde was a brother in Pi Lambda Phi and played varsity soccer.[4] Warde moved to Yale University for his graduate studies, where he worked on the refractive index of solid oxygen films, and earned his doctorate in 1974.[1] At Yale University Warde developed a new interferometer that could operate close to absolute zero.[3]

Research and career

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Warde was appointed to the faculty at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1974.[3] He was one of the first minority faculty members, and one of the first black tenured professors.[5][6] He was promoted to Professor of Electrical Engineering in 1982.[7][8] He worked on the applications of optics to engineering, including optical computing, wireless communication and holography.[3] He developed optical neural network processes to power computers and membrane-mirror based spatial light modulators for optical switching.[4] His research is supported by the National Science Foundation.[9] He founded Optron Systems in 1982, a start-up incubator that developed MicroElectroMechanical Systems (MEMS) displays.[10] Optron Systems specialised in optoelectronic systems, which use light for information processing.[11] He didn't hire his first employee until 1983, raising all the money himself from teaching and consulting, and was worth $3 million in 1986.[11] In 1999 he co-founded Radiant Images, Inc, that created liquid-crystal VLSI displays.[3] Radiant Images was acquired by Hoya Corporation.[12]

At MIT, Warde has served as Faculty Director of the Minority Introduction to Engineering and Science program since 1997.[3] The program is a six-week long program for gifted students from underrepresented minority students.[12] He served as editor of The Journal of Display Technology and is a Fellow of The Optical Society.[4]

Alongside his research, Warde works with the Caribbean government to build economic development in the Caribbean.[13] He serves as the Government of Barbados scientific advisor. He is the interim executive director of the Caribbean Diaspora for Science, Technology & Innovation (CADSTI).[14][15] He is the Executive Director of the Caribbean Science Foundation.[12] He has worked with the United States Department of State and Imperial College London on programs that support science and engineering to school students.[16][17]

In 2018 Warde established the Rosetta Irene Ward Memorial Scholarship Fund, which supports the higher education of students from English speaking Caribbean countries.[2]

Awards and honours

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His awards and honours include;

He has been awarded honorary doctorates from the University of the West Indies and the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid.[1]

Patents

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Warde holds several patents, including;

  • 2004 High angular deflection micro-mirror system[23]
  • 2002 Tunable optical filter[24]
  • 1991 Membrane light modulation systems[25]
  • 1989 Charge transfer signal processor and charge transfer feedthrough plate fabrication assembly and method[26]
  • 1988 Completely cross-talk free high spatial resolution 2D bistable light modulation[27]
  • 1986 Charge transfer signal processor[25]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Cardinal Warde's Biography". The HistoryMakers. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
  2. ^ a b "Rosetta Irene Ward Memorial Scholarship Fund Launched – Caribbean Science Foundation". 23 September 2018. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i "Cardinal Warde | Lemelson-MIT Program". lemelson.mit.edu. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
  4. ^ a b c d e "Professor Hon. Cardinal Warde '69". Stevens Institute of Technology. 2017-10-10. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
  5. ^ Williams, Clarence G. (2003-02-28). Technology and the Dream: Reflections on the Black Experience at MIT, 1941-1999. MIT Press. p. 370. ISBN 9780262731577.
  6. ^ "MIT's Mea Culpa: Now, What About Black Faculty?". The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education (24): 42–44. 1999. doi:10.2307/2999066. ISSN 1077-3711. JSTOR 2999066.
  7. ^ "OVS | Video Detail". techtv.mit.edu. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
  8. ^ "Cardinal Warde | MIT EECS". www.eecs.mit.edu. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
  9. ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#0202487 - Rugged, Compact, Modular OEIC Co-Processor". nsf.gov. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
  10. ^ "Optron Systems - Research". optronsystems.com. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
  11. ^ a b "BLACK PHYSICIST BRINGS POTENTIAL TO LIGHT". Washington Post. Retrieved 2019-04-15.
  12. ^ a b c "Staff – Caribbean Science Foundation". Retrieved 2019-04-14.
  13. ^ NIHERST Trinidad and Tobago (2012-02-17), Cardinal Warde, retrieved 2019-04-14
  14. ^ "Professor Cardinal Warde". Business Barbados. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
  15. ^ "About Us". cadsti-ne.org. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
  16. ^ "U.S. Embassy presents "Adventures in STEM"". U.S. Embassy in Barbados, the Eastern Caribbean, and the OECS. 2016-07-27. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
  17. ^ "STEM in the Community". itzcaribbean. 2014-11-05. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
  18. ^ Stevens Institute of Technology (2018-01-30), 2017 Distinguished Alumni Award in Science & Technology - Professor Hon. Cardinal Warde '69, retrieved 2019-04-14
  19. ^ author, Nation News. "Award for excellence". www.nationnews.com. Retrieved 2019-04-14. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help)
  20. ^ "The Institute Of Caribbean Studies Gala to celebrate the achievements of Caribbean Americans". South Florida Caribbean News. 2007-10-18. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
  21. ^ "Bajan inventor". IslandMix. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
  22. ^ "Cardinal Warde". Icons. 2017-06-23. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
  23. ^ "US Patent for High angular deflection micro-mirror system Patent (Patent # 7,116,463 issued October 3, 2006) - Justia Patents Search". patents.justia.com. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
  24. ^ "US Patent for Tunable optical filter Patent (Patent # 6,822,798 issued November 23, 2004) - Justia Patents Search". patents.justia.com. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
  25. ^ a b "Patents Assigned to Optron Systems, Inc. - Justia Patents Search". patents.justia.com. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
  26. ^ "US Patent for Charge transfer signal processor and charge transfer feedthrough plate fabrication assembly and method Patent (Patent # 4,863,759 issued September 5, 1989) - Justia Patents Search". patents.justia.com. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
  27. ^ "US Patent for Completely cross-talk free high spatial resolution 2D bistable light modulation Patent (Patent # 4,800,263 issued January 24, 1989) - Justia Patents Search". patents.justia.com. Retrieved 2019-04-14.
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