Mead, Carver A. oral history | Computer History Museum

Type

Text

Title

Mead, Carver A. oral history

Contributor

Fairbairn, Doug, Interviewer

Mead, Carver A, Interviewee

Publisher

Computer History Museum

Date

2009-05-27

Place of Publication

Mountain View, California

Extent

21 p.

Description

Dr. Carver Mead has made many pioneering contributions in the field of solid state electronics, and was one of the leading forces in VLSI design methodology. This interview focuses on Dr. Mead's background and how it eventually led to his work in VLSI design and VLSI design methodologies, and concludes with a discussion on the impact of this work.

Subject

Moore's Law; Mead, Carver; California Institute of Technology (Caltech); Fairchild Semiconductor; Engineering; tunneling; Moore, Gordon; Spitzer, Bill; transistor; integrated circuit; Grove, Andy; Very-large-scale-integration (VLSI); Mead-Conway VLSI design methodology; semiconductor history

Collection Title

Oral Histories Online

Accession Number

102702086

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