Features: May 20, 2002

Jeffrey L. Kodosky Elected to Rensselaer Board of Trustees

Jeffrey L. Kodosky '70 was elected to the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Board of Trustees at its May board meeting last week. He was elected to a four-year term expiring December 2006.

Kodosky earned a bachelor's degree in physics from Rensselaer in 1970, and did graduate work in theoretical physics at the University of Texas-Austin. In 1976 he co-founded National Instruments, and currently is a National Instruments Business and Technology Fellow. Kodosky holds numerous patents as principal inventor of the technology in the award-winning software package LabVIEW.

Kodosky and his wife, Gail, were early key supporters of The Rensselaer Plan in 2000 by funding the first IT Constellation (in physics, information technology, and entrepreneurship).

He is a member of the Association for Computing Machinery and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He received the University of Texas' College of Natural Science Hall of Honor Award and the Rensselaer Alumni Association Fellows Award in 1999. He also is a trustee of the Austin Lyric Opera and a governor of the Austin Community Foundation.

Kodosky, who lives in Austin, Texas, is a multi-engine instrument-rated private pilot.