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.

Assistant to Professor Carver Mead
Donna Fox

phone: 626-395-2812
location: 225 Moore Laboratory
mail code: 136-93

Carver Mead Oral History
Chemical Heritage Foundation

Electric Power History
Gone to Bodie
The Evolution of High Tension Power Distribution
Remnants of the Southern Power Co.
Remnants of The 12th (---) of Christmas
The Kern-1 Line—1907 (12 page pdf, 1.6MB)

Postscript to Kern-1 Line—1907 During the fall of 2006, a devastating brush fire ravaged the entire area where we found these specimens. The brush that had sheltered them for 85 years became an inferno, and any porcelain near it was crazed and shattered into small shards. These amazing pieces of electrical history escaped their certain fate by only three years. To read more click here.

Carver interviews Gordon Moore
Gordon E. Moore (PhD '54) and Carver chat about the electronics revolution on September 29, 2005 at the Moore's Law 40th Anniversary. Posted on You Tube in late 2007, conversation begins about 19 minutes into the clip.

Awarded the National Medal of Technology by President Bush in 2002.

This is the first VLSI class in 1971.