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TECHNOLOGY

Carver Mead

Gordon and Betty Moore Professor Emeritus,

California Institute of Technology

About Carver

Carver Mead, Gordon and Betty Moore Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, Emeritus, is best known for his pioneering work on VLSI (very-large-scale integration) circuit technology in the 1970s and 1980s, which made it possible to greatly increase the number of transistors placed on a single semiconductor chip.