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	Carver Mead - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mead studied electrical engineering at Caltech, getting his B.S. in 1956, his M.S. in 1957, and his Ph.D. degree in 1959.
		Mead is credited by Intel's (then Fairchild Semiconductor's) Gordon Moore of coining the term Moore's Law [1], denoting the observation/prediction Moore did in 1965 about the growth rate of the transistor amount fitting on a single integrated circuit.
		Carver created the first neurally inspired chips, including the silicon retina and chips that learn from experience, and founded the first companies to use these technologies: Synaptics, and Foveon, Inc., a Santa Clara, California company developing CMOS image sensor/processing chips (for use in e.g.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Carver_Mead (719 words)

	Carver Mead -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Carver Mead and (additional info and facts about Lynn Conway) Lynn Conway co-wrote the landmark text Introduction to VLSI systems in 1980.
		Carver Mead is a key pioneer of modern (The branch of electronics that deals with miniature components) microelectronics.
		Carver's career is characterized by an endless string of "firsts." He built the first (additional info and facts about GaAs) GaAs (additional info and facts about MESFET) MESFET, a device that is today a mainstay of (Transmission by radio waves) wireless electronics.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/c/ca/carver_mead.htm (704 words)

	Inventor of the Week: Archive
		Mead's early work in solid state electronics led to his most recognized invention: the development of structured custom design of microchips.
		Carver Mead continues that effort today, along with many other projects, including directing and consulting for a number of high-tech firms.
		On April 22 of this year, Mead won the Lemelson-MIT Prize for Invention and Innovation, and was honored at the Annual Ceremony, held at the Exploratorium in San Francisco.
	web.mit.edu /invent/iow/mead2.html (472 words)

	Computer History Museum - 2002 Fellow Award Recipient, Carver Mead (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Mead has made many pioneering contributions in solid-state electronics, and was one of the leading forces in very large scale integration (VLSI) design methodology.
		Mead is also well known for pioneering computer-aided design of VLSI circuitry through his methodology of "structured custom design," an approach now used by all semiconductor companies.
		Mead’s work with VLSI design has also included co-authoring the canonical text in the field with Lynn Conway in 1979, Introduction to VLSI Systems, a book that was the standard reference text for a generation of IC designers.
	www.computerhistory.org /events/hall_of_fellows/mead (341 words)

	Mead and Conway win '81 Electronics Award
		Mead, the Caltech professor, and Conway, the Xerox system designer, have optimized the VLSI process by melding the concepts of fabrication at the device level and architecture at the system level to produce truly integrated systems.
		The vehicle was the classroom: Mead through his graduate classes in Pasadena at the California Institute of Technology, and Conway through a landmark course she taught in 1978-79 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge as visiting professor in electrical engineering and computer science.
		Mead, who describes himself as a "lifer" at Caltech, did his undergraduate and graduate work there and then served as assistant professor and associate professor before obtaining the Gordon and Betty E. Moore professorship, a chair endowed by and named after the chairman of Intel Corp. and his wife.
	ai.eecs.umich.edu /people/conway/Awards/Electronics/ElectAchiev.html (2277 words)

	Carnegie Mellon Press Release: February 27, 2002
		Mead is internationally known for his work in microelectronics, specifically his design ideas for the Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) circuits that are used in semiconductors and for the High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMT), the standard amplifying device used in microwave communications systems.
		Mead also is a pioneer in the development of "neuromorphic electronic systems" that imitate the brain and nervous system.
		Mead was the Gordon and Betty Moore Professor of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology, where he taught for more than 40 years.
	www.cmu.edu /PR/releases02/020227_drmead.html (322 words)

	Carver Mead turns eye to digital camera that rivals film: Digital Photography Review
		Although Mead is not revealing details of the three analog VLSI image chips that are to be used in place of a charge-coupled device (CCD), he claims the Foveon camera spits out a 48-Mbyte, 4,000 x 4,000-pixel Photoshop file.
		According to Mead, most digital still cameras interpolate two-thirds of the information they capture because the red, green and blue sensors are next to each other on the same CCD chip.
		However, Mead would say that the sensors are produced on standard digital CMOS fabrication lines that he has learned to tweak for analog VLSI.
	www.dpreview.com /news/article_print.asp?date=9907&article=99070901foveon (1185 words)

	Microelectronics Pioneer Carver Mead Wins $47,000 Dickson Prize
		Carver Mead, a pioneering inventor whose work helped to power the information age, will receive Carnegie Mellon's Dickson Prize in Science for his many contributions to microelectronics, digital photography and other science fields.
		Mead is a pioneer in the field of neuromorphic electronics—he even coined the term—and his work in the field has influenced all scientists today who base their electronic designs on biological foundations.
		Mead received the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize in 1999 for his work in the microelectronics field, specifically for his design ideas for the Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) circuits that are used in semiconductors, and for the High Electron Mobility Transistor (HEMT), the standard amplifying device used in microwave communications systems.
	www.cmu.edu /cmnews/020308/020308_mead.html (696 words)

	Winners' Circle: Carver Mead
		A trigonometry book and electrical equipment from a power plant was all Dr. Carver Mead needed to whet his appetite for math and physics as a child.
		Mead also laid the foundations for the Information Age with his gallium-arsenide transistor, which evolved into HEMT—the universal amplifying device in microwave receivers used in a myriad of telecommunication systems.
		Mead was named one of the 2003 laureates of the President's National Medal of Technology.
	web.mit.edu /invent/a-winners/a-mead.html (415 words)

	Caltech Press Release, 5/10/1999, Carver Mead
		PASADENA-Carver Mead, who is Gordon and Betty Moore Professor of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology, has been named winner of the $500,000 Lemelson-MIT Prize.
		The award is being given to Mead this year "for his many contributions to the field of microelectronics, which have led to a new business model for the industry and enabled a new wave of innovation in information technology."
		Mead's major innovations include the MESFET, now called the HEMT, an amplifying device used in microwave communications that is also an integral component of the Internet, as well as computer animation, microchip design, neuromorphic electronic systems, and other computer interfaces.
	pr.caltech.edu /media/Press_Releases/PR11982.html (355 words)

	Business 2.0 :: Magazine Article :: Features :: Say Cheese, You Poor Emulsion-Film Dinosaurs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		It's a grandiose spiel, but not to be dismissed lightly: Mead is one of the most renowned technologists of his era, a brilliant and quirky physics professor whose breakthroughs in chip design in the 1970s were crucial to ushering in the personal-computer age.
		Mead's new chip captures red, blue, and green in every sensor by detecting each color at a different layer within a silicon chip.
		The science behind that is "just physics" invented "ages ago," Mead says, but "getting it to work is a nightmare of things you have to invent." Kodak (EK), for one, applied for a patent on a version of the technology back in 1978 but never found a way to make it commercially viable.
	www.business2.com /b2/web/articles/0,17863,514492,00.html (612 words)

	Carver Meads Natural Inspiration (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		And in the early 1980s, Mead and Caltech colleague Richard Feynman, the late Nobel laureate physicist, took circuitry into a new dimension by exploring neuromorphic electronics modeled on living organisms.
		MEAD: All my favorite VC typesI know that sounds like an oxymoron, but actually I do like some of those guyssay the same thing: they go with their gut.
		MEAD: When youve finally got a product, the fact that you were inspired to go that way by thinking about touch and vision and hearing or whatever doesnt matter much.
	www.technologyreview.com /articles/04/09/reiss0904.asp?p=1 (992 words)

	Gilder Publishing, LLC
		Mead, one of Caltech's treasures and godfather to four decades of history-making technologies, was probably the industry's most important intellect.
		Mead and Merrill's Foveon is no mere "digital camera," full of chips and microprocessors and mirrors and shutters—it is a fully solid-state machine, based around a single chip and virtually no mechanical paraphernalia, capable (like the human retina) of both still and moving photography.
		The first results were far from usable, but Mead was encouraged enough to tell the others, "I think we have to bet the company on this." The first workable chip emerged from the National line a year later; Merrill installed it into an old camera and snapped his totem pole picture.
	www.gilder.com /AmericanSpectatorArticles/FoveonMar-Apr.htm (6602 words)

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		MEAD: Part of the problem was the refusal of the CS [computer science] community to have a new thought—the fact that there might be inherently more powerful ways to do computing.
		MEAD: We started out making models of the retina, which by itself might make a big difference to a few people, but it’s not enough of a commercial opportunity to justify big investment.
		MEAD: I looked at things again a few years ago, and if you don’t do anything differently, you can get down to 30 nanometers—a factor of five from what we originally said was going to be easy, and still a long ways from where things are today.
	commonsensewonder.com /mtarchives/005786.shtml (2777 words)

	Carver Mead's Spectator Interview
		Mead provided the empirical analysis behind Moore's law (predicting a doubling of computer power every 18 months).When single chips held only tens of transistors, he showed that in due course tens of millions would be feasible.
		Now, in the opening years of the new millennium, Mead believes that it is time to clear up the philosophical and practical confusion of contemporary physics.
		Central to Mead's rescue project are a series of discoveries inconsistent with the prevailing conceptions of quantum mechanics.
	freespace.virgin.net /ch.thompson1/People/CarverMead.htm (6706 words)

	2003 Founders Award Recipient
		Carver A. Mead taught at the California Institute of Technology for over forty years.
		Mead has also been the founder of, and consultant to a number of high-technology companies.
		Carver Mead is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineer, Inc. He is a Foreign Fellow of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, and Life Fellow of the Franklin Institute.
	www.nae.edu /NAE/awardscom.nsf/weblinks/LRAO-5RWSSS?OpenDocument (333 words)

	Digital Sensor Is Said to Match Quality of Film
		Mead, who founded Foveon in Santa Clara, Calif., in 1997, was a longtime physicist at the California Institute of Technology before his retirement two years ago.
		Mead was a co-founder of Synaptics, the dominant maker of computer touchpads.
		"Carver's strength is his clever understanding of physics," said Carlo Sequin, an electrical engineering professor at the University of California at Berkeley, who was the co- inventor of the digital video camera at Bell Labs in 1973.
	www.zonezero.com /magazine/news/sensor.html (1288 words)

	Electronic News: Carver A. Mead honored - California Institute of Technology engineering professor wins Phil Kaufman ...
		Mead was especially pleased at the recognition from long-time associates and friends represented by the Electronic Design Automation Companies (EDAC) award.
		"Carver Mead's broad and distinguished career, has always found him at the very leading edge of a topic, from dielectrics to scaling theory, from VLSI design methodology to neural networks," said A. Richard Newton, a member of the Kaufman award nominating committee, who made the award presentation address.
		Carver Mead inspired a generation of system designers to work directly with silicon.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0EKF/is_n2143_v42/ai_18879648 (818 words)

	mead on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Mead was known in classical Greece and Rome and was the favorite drink of the tribes of N and W Europe.
		Sara Mead, 26, checks for mail with daughters Kasiah, 3, and Braedyn, 9 months, in front of their Hinesville, Georgia home.
		Mead's husband Army Cpl. Derrick Mead was deployed recently.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/m1/mead.asp (374 words)

	Decoherence or Quantum Entanglement?
		He brings out the point that coherence is essentially about being in-phase, which only de facto tends to mean that macroscopic systems tend to be decoherent, since the bigger and more complex they are, the more they tend to decohere.
		Carver Mead: Modern science began with mechanics, and in some ways we are still captive to its ideas and images.
		The quantum world in its finality is in fact, (according to Carver Mead), a wave.
	www.pych-one.com /new-902689-4765.html (7479 words)

	The 1987 Wriston Lecture \| The Technological Vision
		In a similar way, the special genius of Carver Mead is not manifested in any one single breakthrough but in an entire career of constant innovation.
		Carver has been much acclaimed for this feat and most innovators were arrested on their
		Mead's theorizing, on the other hand, is often focused on the economics of innovation.
	www.manhattan-institute.org /html/wl1987.htm (7041 words)

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		Carver Mead has argued that photons, and the electromagnetic field as a whole, is not “real,” that is, it is ontologically dependent on the quantum field of charged particles (called the “Dirac field”), so that we could completely account for all experimental results without invoking the idea of electromagnetic field or photons.
		Mead’s Theory of Quantum Jumps One of the main arguments for the essential reality of photons and other particles is “quantum jumps.” Carver Mead offers an interesting and reasonable argument for how quantum jumps take place, entirely within a wave framework without invoking wave-particle duality.
		Mead is in harmony with modern field theory, however, in viewing the Dirac field for charged particles as real, as opposed to some interpretations of quantum mechanics which view it as just a “knowledge field”.
	philsci-archive.pitt.edu /archive/00001504/01/photon.doc (4650 words)

	Growth & Success eNews No. 81, 4 April, 2002
		Carver Mead is a silicon legend, pioneering chip technology in the early days of Intel (employee No. 5).
		Carver Mead is a seminal thinker whose work has spanned much of the growth of electronics.
		Mead suggests that advancements in vastly different arenas - biology, for example - will help push semiconductor technology beyond the limit of the single-electron gate.
	www.jimpinto.com /enews/apr4-2002.html (2059 words)

	MaineScience - Happenings - News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Mead, who is 67, was a pioneer of the modern computer chip industry in the 1970's.
		Mead and his team at Foveon, the startup he co-founded and chairs, unveiled on Feb. 11 the fruits of those labors: the X3 photographic sensor chip.
		Mead's Web page at the California Institute of Technology, where he is now Moore Professor, Emeritus.
	www.state.me.us /mstf/htdocs/news/2002/02h_national.html (780 words)

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