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Country
United States / /
Facility
T. J. Watson Research Center / Emerita University of Michigan / /
IndustryTerm
printing plant / symmetric networks / prototype chips / internal on-chip communications / energy / metal / related storage devices / microprocessor chips / digital computing / computing / image processing system / wireless communication / network communications / job search / personal computing technology / metal-gate / chip processing power / obtained prototype chips / electricity / symbolic layout software / metal-oxide-semiconductor / self-aligned silicon-gate fabrication technology / electronics / character-recognition algorithms / electrical systems / manufacturing prototype / /
NaturalFeature
Yorktown Heights / Xerox Sierra / /
Organization
University of Michigan / Ann Arbor / Palo Alto Research Center / Computer Science Department / Computer Science Division / Computer Science Lab / T. J. Watson Research Center / MIT / Systems Sciences Lab / Columbia University’s School of Engineering and Applied Science / /
Person
Gene Amdahl / Ron Ayres / Lee Boysel / Doug Fairbairn / William R. (Bert) Sutherland / John Cocke / Mike Tolle / Tom Everhart / Carver Mead / Ivan Sutherland / Robert Dennard / Harold Garfinkel / Dave Johannsen / Lynn Conway / T.J. Watson / Jr. / Brian Randell / Ann Arbor Lynn Conway / Edwin Armstrong / Federico Faggin / Bob Booher / Chris Carrol / Gordon Moore / Charles Steinmetz / Jim Rowson / B. O. Evans / Frank Wanlass / Thomas / Rod Masumoto / Herb Schorr / Bruce Hoeneisen / J. Watson / Jr. / /
Position
high-level consultant / architect / brilliant young computer engineer / General / systems programmer / engineer / contract programmer / CEO / manager / Professor of Electrical Engineering / specialist / chemical engineer / Corporate Executive / Chair / executive / /
Reminiscences of the VLSI Revolution: How a series of failures triggered a paradigm shift in digital design* By Lynn Conway