> At Bell Labs, Muller and fellow scientist Glen Wilk ’90, who is now vice president of technology at ASM, tried replacing silicon dioxide - the prevailing gate material, which leaked too much current at small scales – with hafnium oxide.
They are naming professors like "Now That's What I Call Music" albums now?
(I genuinely can't find why there's a '90 there, suspect it's a copy/paste error?)
University news sources often cite alums of the university with their year of graduation.
Presumably because he is a Cornell alumnus from 1990. The article is at cornell.edu .