The James Eaton Memorial Scholarship is awarded to EECS undergraduate students who have demonstrated a keen sense of creativity and inventiveness. The award is named in honor of James Eaton, a 1962 EE PhD, who spent a short period of time on the UC Berkeley EE faculty. He then spent 40 years directing research and pioneering technologies at IBM, making special accomplishments in the magnetic tape data storage areas. Late in his career, suffering from MS, he left the East Coast and returned to California where he pursued his interest in designing new products. He received an IBM Corporate Award in 2001 and the title of Master Inventor (with 24-25 patents) shortly before his death. James H. Eaton was known by all as an original thinker, coming up with practical, unique and patentable ideas.

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