Artifact Details

Title

Sutherland letter to Xerox proposing VLSI project

Catalog Number

102770288

Type

Document

Description

The letter on the attached pdf file was written by Ivan Sutherland, at that time a professor at Caltech, to his brother Bert Sutherland, a manager at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center. This document stimulated the VLSI design project at Xerox and the 1979 Conway-Mead text "Introduction to VLSI Systems" based on the results of that work. The letter was included in Lynn Conway's donation of documents to the museum in May 2008. Donated by Lynn Conway. 4 scanned pages.

Date

1976-01-26

Author

Sutherland, Ivan E.

Identifying Numbers

Other number doc-4828d4e702e18 Deprecated ITCHP Number

Extent

5 p.

Category

Correspondence

Collection Title

Information Technology Corporate Histories Collection

Lot Number

X7847.2017