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| | Lynn Conway's VLSI systems research discussed in "Funding a Revolution" |
 | | Encouraged by Bert Sutherland, Conway's laboratory manager at Xerox, and Bert's brother, Ivan Sutherland, chair of computer science at CalTech, Mead and Conway developed a simplified, standardized system design methodology and layout design rules for VLSI system and circuit design. |
 | | The final report, written by Ivan Sutherland, Carver Mead, and Thomas Everhardt, concluded that continued attempts to increase computational power by packing more devices onto a single integrated circuit--as industry was attempting--ignored the possibility of even greater gains through wholly new computer architectures. |
 | | Sutherland and Mead published a derivative article in Scientific American in September 1977 to gain an even broader audience for their ideas (Sutherland and Mead, 1977). |
| ai.eecs.umich.edu /people/conway/Impact/FundingaRevolution.html (2838 words) |
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