Kirk D. Prall (M'82) was born in 1958. He received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, in 1990. He worked for Philips Semiconductors from 1982 to 1991, in the areas of EPROM, ROM, microprocessors. He joined Micron, Inc., Boise, ID, in 1991 working on DRAM, NOR, NAND, and emerging memories. He retired from Micron in 2019 and is currently writing engineering books. He has published several papers and holds more than 200 patents.