Keith Lofstrom
Template:Short description Keith Lofstrom (born 1953 in Portland, Oregon)[1] is an American electrical engineer. He has a BSEE and MSEE from University of California, Berkeley.[2] He is more widely known in the space advocacy community for a ground-based space launcher design, the Launch Loop,[3][4][5] for which he has been credited by name in several works of science fiction.[6][7][8][9] Frederik Pohl, who used the idea in several of his stories, once wrote that, of all the non-rocket spacelaunch concepts, he liked the Lofstrom Loop "best of all."[10]
As an electrical engineer, Lofstrom specializes in mixed-signal integrated circuit design. A paper he wrote on boundary scan methods was one of two to receive an Honorable Mention at the 1997 IEEE International Test Conference.[11] One of his 9 patents is for a way to read an individual digital ID for integrated circuits that arises from random atomic variations inherent in the semiconductor device fabrication process.[12][13][14]
One of his more recent efforts in speculative space systems is Server Sky, a very large satellite constellation in Earth orbit using thin-film solar cells to power data center computers integrated into the same wafers as the PV cells.[15]
He is signed up for cryopreservation with the Alcor Life Extension Foundation, since 1992.[1]
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External links
- Personal website
- KLIC - IC design consultancy