James F. Gibbons

James F. Gibbons (born September 19, 1931) is an American electrical engineer and academic administrator. He is credited (together with William Shockley) with starting the semiconductor device fabrication laboratory at Stanford University that enabled the semiconductor industry and created Silicon Valley.

Gibbons is also credited for inventing Tutored Video Instruction, which is widely used at Stanford University and its Stanford Instructional Television Network. The Tutored Video Instruction is used to educate engineers and non students who are in need via SERA Learning Technologies (which Gibbons founded).

Gibbons was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 1974 for leadership as a teacher, author, and researcher in semiconductor electronics.

Early life James F. Gibbons was born in Leavenworth, Kansas and also due to Northwestern's co-op requirement. He also earned a National Science Foundation fellowship from his efforts at Northwestern, which was able to be used at any school across the United States. and began his work with Shockley. and dean of the School of Engineering in 1984, a position he held until June 1996. that is used at Stanford University and in other places. This video network is to extend the education of engineers. Gibbon's Tutored video instruction has been used to educate the children of migrant farm workers and to help at-risk teens with their anger problems. He founded SERA Learning Technologies which utilizes this technology for that aim.

He was awarded the IEEE Jack A. Morton Award in 1980 for his outstanding contributions in the field of solid-state devices. He was awarded the IEEE James H. Mulligan, Jr. Education Medal (formerly the IEEE Education Medal) in 1985 for his contributions to the vitality, imagination, and leadership of the members of the engineering profession. He was awarded the IEEE Founders Medal in 2011 for his outstanding contributions to the leadership, planning, and administration of affairs of great value to the electrical and electronics engineering profession.