John Hamburger Author

Bob Dobkin is a founder and Chief Technical Officer of Linear Technology Corporation. Prior to 1999, he was responsible for all new product development at Linear. Before founding Linear Technology in 1981, Dobkin was Director of Advanced Circuit Development at National Semiconductor for eleven years. He has been intimately involved in the development of high performance linear integrated circuits for over 30 years and has generated many industry standard circuits. Dobkin holds over 100 patents pertaining to linear ICs and has authored over 50 articles and papers. He attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. John Hamburger directs global marketing communications programs at Linear Technology, where he was instrumental in developing the Analog Circuit Design book series. Previously with Luminous Networks and Terayon Communication Systems, he helped define marketing strategy from startup to public company, and held positions with Cypress Semiconductor and AMD. Prior to his career in high tech, he was an editor for Addison-Wesley, Harper & Row, WH Freeman, Harcourt Brace, Stanford University Press, and Runner’s World. He holds a degree from the University of Chicago.