Gus Gurley Spoke at Science Commencement Ceremony

Gus Gurley has a B.S. degree in Physics from the University of California at Santa Barbara and a M.S., Physics, Scientific Instrumentation, University of California at Santa Barbara.

In 1987 Gus Gurley co-founded the local high-tech company, Digital Instruments (DI), along with Virgil Elings, former UCSB Physics Professor. DI pioneered scanning probe microscopy with a simple goal - to make the power of scanning probe microscopy readily available to scientists and engineers, enabling them to image and explore nanoscale features and structures never seen before. That same year, they
constructed the first commercially successful scanning tunneling microscope, shipping the first Nanoscope units. Gus designed the NanoScope and led the NanoScope software development. He managed new product development at DI, and is one of the world's leading authorities on scanning probe control systems. Prior to DI, Gus designed flight simulators for Link flight Simulation.

DI received several awards for business and engineering excellence, including 3 Photonics Circle of Excellence awards; local, state and national new product awards from the Society of Professional engineers. In 1998, Digital Instruments officially merged with Veeco Instruments, a leading supplier of instrumentation for the research, semiconductor, data storage, telecommunications and other industries. By combining the technological strengths of each company, the newly formed company added the distinction of being the world leader in 3-D surface metrology.

Since retiring from Digital Instruments/Veeco, Gus has been exploring his interest in systems level neuroscience and neural networking. He hopes to develop a neural simulator and has been working on the software that would support this digital based device.
 

Gus Gurley

News Date: 

Friday, March 4, 2016