Talk:Chenming Hu

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Conflict of interest

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Edit request

Hi,

I would like the following information to be included in the biography of Dr.Hu:

Dr. Chenming Hu received the National Technology and Innovation Medal from President Obama in the White House in 2016. He has been called the Father of 3D Transistors for developing the FinFET in 1999. By 2015 all top servers, computers, Android and ios phones use FinFET processors. He has authored five books including a 2010 semiconductor device textbook and over 900 research papers, and has been granted over 100 US patents. He is honored with memberships in national academies such as -- the US National Academy of Engineering and Academia Sinica. He has been honored with several awards including the 2011 Asian American Engineer of the Year Award , 2013 Kaufman Award.

The information shown above is corroborated by the reference shown below, which could also be included in the biography:

I would like to know if this information can be included in the biography and whether this is sufficient to deal with the issues listed on his wikipedia page.

References

Adityamedury (talk) 06:51, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

Thanks for using the talk-page to make this request, Adityamedury. In future you can start an edit request with a {{request edit}} template, which will (in theory at least) attract the attention of other editors. I'll take this opportunity to repeat what I told you at the Teahouse: "If you are personally or professionally connected to Hu you must declare that connection in any discussion about him or about our page on him".

I'm declining your request, as the tone of what you want added is not appropriate to an encyclopaedia. Wikipedia content needs to be impartial, balanced, dispassionate and neutral; what you propose reads like a press-release or bio page. We are not here to promote Hu, but to record his life and (very considerable) achievements. People close to the topic often find it difficult to maintain a neutral tone – that's one of the reasons we discourage conflict-of-interest editing.

The source you offer is a reprint of this, which in turn seems to be largely a rehash of his own bio. The sources we are looking for are independent of the subject. Has he been written about in Forbes, in the New York Times, in books on the history of microelectronics, for example? Justlettersandnumbers (talk) 11:12, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

Hi,

Thanks for your inputs. I do have a conflict of interest, which is why I realize I can only make suggestions for edits and not edit any part of his page myself. Could you please tell me, what I could do to enable the removal of the two issues listed on his wikipedia page .

Adityamedury (talk) 17:57, 10 July 2016 (UTC)

Hi,

In searching for independent (hopefully dispassionate) accounts of Dr.Hu's achievements, I found some articles, which might be useful references to add, though I am not quite sure, how the biography could be suitably edited keeping these references in mind:

1. http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2012/09/20/globalfoundries-moves-to-match-intels-transistors-and-timing/ 2. http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/design/the-origins-of-intels-new-transistor-and-its-future 3. https://www.technologyreview.com/s/423938/how-three-dimensional-transistors-went-from-lab-to-fab/ 4. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/05/science/05chip.html 5. https://newsroom.intel.com/news-releases/intel-reinvents-transistors-using-new-3-d-structure/

What you will find is that the above references talk about one of Dr.Hu's invention, the FINFET or as Intel calls it the '3-D transistor' which has enabled downsizing of transistors and hence ultimately enabled the continued miniaturization of chips thus allowing Moore's law to be continued. If you could find some appropriate way to add these references, that might add further useful information to the wikipedia page and also help alleviate one or both of the issues listed for the wikipedia page

Adityamedury (talk) 05:03, 11 July 2016 (UTC)