| Carver A. Mead AKA Carver Andress Mead Born: 1-May-1934
Birthplace: Bakersfield, CA
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Engineer, Inventor Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Microelectronics Carver Mead pioneered integrated-circuit chip designs, neural circuitry, neuromorphic engineering, and the physics of computation. He designed the first gallium-arsenide metal epitaxial semiconductor field effect transistor (MESFET), the basis for the HEMT (high electron mobility transistor), and with Lynn Conway he wrote the first textbook on very-large-scale integration (VLSI). He studied under Richard Feynman at California Institute of Technology, and spent his entire academic career there.
Among the numerous companies he has founded are Foveon (high-fidelity digital imaging systems), Sonic Innovations (digital hearing aids), and Synaptics (touchpad systems). University: BS Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology (1956)
University: MS Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology (1957)
University: PhD Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology (1960)
Teacher: Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology (1957-67)
Professor: Electrical Engineering, California Institute of Technology (1967-)
National Medal of Technology and Innovation 2002
Lemelson-MIT Prize 1999
American Physical Society
National Academy of Engineering
National Academy of Sciences
Author of books:
Introduction to VLSI Systems (1980, with Lynn Conway)
Collective Electrodynamics: Quantum Foundations of Electromagnetism (2000)
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