Here’s a great interview with Carver Mead, microelectronics / EDA pioneer, entrepreneur, and former Caltech Professor. This interview is basically the transcript of a taped oral interview that Prof. Carver Mead gave at Caltech on July 17, 1996.
In this interview, Mead talks about his childhood in California, how he got interested in electrical apparatuses and radios at a tender age, why he chose to go to Caltech (instead of Stanford), how his undergraduate years at Caltech went, how he started working in solid-state electronics, why Caltech is unique, how fundamental research ought to work, among many other things.
I have read this interview twice over the last 3 or 4 months, and the reason why I like it so much is that Mead portraits fundamental research in a very realistic way. Mead’s thoughts on entrepreneurship and technology transfer are also very clear and very interesting.
Tags: Caltech, Carver Mead, Electronic Design Automation, entrepreneurs, Microelectronics, Scientists, Technologists
January 11, 2008 at 2:03 am |
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