National Medal of Technology 2011 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award Computer History Museum Fellow (2002)
Scientific career
Thesis
Transistor Switching Analysis(1960)
Doctoral advisor
R. D. Middlebrook Robert V. Langmuir
Doctoral students
Kwabena Boahen
External videos
Carver Mead, Winner of 1999 Lemelson-MIT Prize, Lemelson Foundation
Carver Mead – Semiconductors, April 17, 2014, The Official ACM
Carver Mead presents The Universe and Us: An Integrated Theory of Electromagnetics and Gravitation, TTI/Vanguard
Carver Andress Mead (born 1 May 1934) is an American scientist and engineer. He currently holds the position of Gordon and Betty Moore Professor Emeritus of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), having taught there for over 40 years.[1]
A pioneer of modern microelectronics, Mead has made contributions to the development and design of semiconductors, digital chips, and silicon compilers, technologies which form the foundations of modern very-large-scale integration chip design. Mead has also been involved in the founding of more than 20 companies.[2]
In the 1980s, Mead focused on electronic modeling of human neurology and biology, creating "neuromorphic electronic systems."[3][4][5] Most recently, he has called for the reconceptualization of modern physics, revisiting the theoretical debates of Niels Bohr, Albert Einstein and others in light of later experiments and developments in instrumentation.[6]
Mead's contributions as a teacher include the classic textbook Introduction to VLSI Systems (1980), which he coauthored with Lynn Conway. He also taught Deborah Chung, the first female engineering graduate of Caltech,[7] and advised Louise Kirkbride, the school's first female electrical engineering student.[8][9]
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Carver Andress Mead (born 1 May 1934) is an American scientist and engineer. He currently holds the position of Gordon and Betty Moore Professor Emeritus...
production and decreased costs. Collaborating with Ivan Sutherland and CarverMead of Caltech on VLSI design methodology, she co-authored Introduction to...
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Protocol. It was based on the revolutionary VLSI design methodology of CarverMead and Lynn Conway, who pioneered and/or popularized the use of technology-independent...
ISBN 0-262-03188-4. It has cover blurbs by Karl Pribram, Francis Crick, and CarverMead. The Computational Brain The MIT Press The Computational Brain, By Patricia...
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based on the research done at the California Institute of Technology by CarverMead and Chris Diorio. Impinj currently produces EPC Class 1, Gen 2 passive...
the first applications for neuromorphic engineering was proposed by CarverMead in the late 1980s. Neuromorphic engineering is for now set apart by the...
(VLSI) — his brother Ivan and CarverMead — and Lynn Conway of his PARC staff. With PARC resources made available by Sutherland, Mead and Conway developed a...
began following the publication of "Introduction to VLSI Systems" by CarverMead and Lynn Conway in 1980; considered the standard textbook for chip design...
theoreticians. In the early 1980s, having laid out the foundations of VLSI, CarverMead became interested in exploring the similarities between computation done...
integrated chips (TDDI), and fingerprint sensors. Federico Faggin and CarverMead founded Synaptics in 1986. They used their research on neural networks...
David L. Johannsen, under the guidance of his thesis adviser, CarverMead. Johannsen, Mead, and Edmund K. Cheng subsequently founded Silicon Compilers Inc...
from the California Institute of Technology, where he was advised by CarverMead. For his PhD thesis, Boahen designed and fabricated a silicon chip emulating...
1975, he revised the forecast rate to approximately every two years. CarverMead popularized the phrase "Moore's law". The prediction has become a target...
Yariv, innovator in quantum electronics and integrated optics 1984: CarverMead and Lynn Conway, developers of CAD techniques for VLSI technology and...
WYSIWYG integrated circuit editor based on the work of Lynn Conway, CarverMead, and the Mead and Conway revolution; the first versions of the Smalltalk environment...
VLSI Project was central in promoting the Mead and Conway revolution throughout industry. In 1975, CarverMead, Tom Everhart and Ivan Sutherland of Caltech...
and Ph.D. in 1975 at the same place, under the guidance of his advisor CarverMead. He changed his name to Hagiwara on getting married in 1974. The first...
coined the observation Moore's Law National Medal of Technology laureate CarverMead, BS 1956, MS 1957, PhD 1960 Benoit Mandelbrot, MS 1948, Engineering 1949...
University London; Randall Beer of the Case Institute in Cleveland, Ohio; CarverMead (who invented the phrase Moore's law) at Caltech; Robert Worden of Logica...
Sammet, Maurice Wilkes 2002: Charles Geschke, John Warnock, John Cocke, CarverMead 2003: Tim Berners-Lee, David Wheeler, Gordon Bell 2004: Erich Bloch,...
Tomalski Brian Rix Brice Phillips Bruce Perens Carl Bødtker Carl Sassenrath CarverMead Catherine Coleman Cathryn Mitchell Charles E. Apgar Charles E. Brady...
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Carver Mead, Winner of 1999 Lemelson-MIT Prize, Lemelson Foundation
