His grandfather Morris Peckerar, a union leader, was born in the town of Fälesti in Bessarabia. He has been Principal Navy Technical Officer on the DARPA Advanced Lithography Program (1989-2003). He was also assigned the role of US Navy consul- tant to the State Department on issues relating to strategic arms control for electronic weapons systems. Dr. Peckerar is now Professor of Microelectronic Engineering at the University of Maryland. His current research continues to be centered on analog and mixed signal design. In particular, he is active in incorporating new materials systems and processes into the system-on-a-chip tool-set. He has developed algorithms for e-beam proximity control, which are essential for e-beam mask manufacture. He was the co-inventor of the polysiloxane self-assembled film imaging process. He has also developed instruments for improvement of e-beam pattern place- ment using local-fiducial networks. He is also an expert in the area of imaging system technology. Among his achievements in this area is the development of a maximum-entropy image reconstruction chip. This chip represented the first appli- cation of entropy regularization to integrated circuit signal processing. He has deve- loped fast-Fourier chips based on neural net principles and a tomographic imager chip (also based on maximum entropy principles). Most recently, he si developing "super- capacitor" power sources for distributed ad h o sensor arrays.