Faculty
Carver Mead
Gordon and Betty Moore Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, Emeritus
Degrees and Appointments
B.S., Caltech, 1956; M.S., 1957; Ph.D., 1960; D.Sc.h.c., University of Lund (Sweden); D.h.c., University of Southern California. Instructor in Electrical Engineering, Caltech, 1958-59; Assistant Professor, 1959-62; Associate Professor, 1962-67; Professor, 1967-77; Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, 1977-80; Moore Professor of Computer Science, 1980-92; Moore Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, 1992-99; Moore Professor Emeritus, 1999-.
Research Overview
Professor Mead's interests include the creation of silicon models of specific areas of the nervous system, and the physics of computation.
List of Research Areas
silicon models of specific areas of the nervous system, physics of computation
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