Kyoto Prize at Oxford: A personal journey through the information revolution by engineer and applied physicist Carver Mead
Pioneer of modern microelectronics Carver Mead (2022 Kyoto Prize Laureate in Advanced Technology) whose technological innovations form the foundations of modern very-large-scale integration chip design gives the Kyoto Prize at Oxford public lecture remotely.

Mead has made many of the most significant advances in microcircuitry in the Information Age, which are essential to the internet access and global cellular phone use that many people enjoy and take for granted every day. Mead proposed and promoted a new methodology to divide the increasingly complicated design process of VLSI systems into logic, circuit, and layout designs, and to separate them from the manufacturing process. This paved the way for electronic design automation that covered a text-based description of the system operation and the automatic generation of the layout required for chip manufacturing, leading to immense development of VLSI-based electronics and industry.

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Date: 9 May 2023, 15:00 (Tuesday, 3rd week, Trinity 2023)
Venue: Blavatnik School of Government, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter OX2 6GG
Speakers: Speaker to be announced
Organising department: Blavatnik School of Government
Organiser contact email address: comms@bsg.ox.ac.uk
Part of: Kyoto Prize at Oxford
Booking required?: Required
Booking url: https://www.kyotoprize.ox.ac.uk/events/personal-journey-through-information-revolution-engineer-and-applied-physicist-carver-mead
Booking email: comms@bsg.ox.ac.uk
Cost: Free
Audience: Public
Editor: Amalia Rusei