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==Description== | ==Description== | ||
| − | Award winning transgender computer scientist and electrical engineer. Retired Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of Michigan. Notable for a number of pioneering achievements, including the Mead & Conway revolution in VLSI design, which incubated an emerging electronic design automation industry | + | Award winning transgender computer scientist and electrical engineer. Retired Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of Michigan. Notable for a number of pioneering achievements, including: the Mead & Conway revolution in VLSI design, which incubated an emerging electronic design automation industry: the invention of dimensionless, scalable design rules that greatly simplified chip design and design tools; and the invention of a new form of internet-based infrastructure for rapid-prototyping and short-run fabrication of large numbers of chip designs. LGBTQ activist. Member, National Academy of Engineering. |
==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||
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* [[LGBTQ Engineers]] | * [[LGBTQ Engineers]] | ||
* [[Transgender Academics]] | * [[Transgender Academics]] | ||
| + | * [[LGBTQ Inventors]] | ||
==Further Reading/Research== | ==Further Reading/Research== | ||
Latest revision as of 21:41, 17 July 2023
Country
United States
Birth - Death
1938 -
Occupation
Scientist
Description
Award winning transgender computer scientist and electrical engineer. Retired Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of Michigan. Notable for a number of pioneering achievements, including: the Mead & Conway revolution in VLSI design, which incubated an emerging electronic design automation industry: the invention of dimensionless, scalable design rules that greatly simplified chip design and design tools; and the invention of a new form of internet-based infrastructure for rapid-prototyping and short-run fabrication of large numbers of chip designs. LGBTQ activist. Member, National Academy of Engineering.
