Interview of Lynn Conway

A major feature in computing history is the evolving ability to “write on silicon” and thereby create novel computational structures increasingly fast, compact power-efficient hardware. In 1978, Xerox PARC researcher MIT professor Lynn Conway, together with Caltech's Carver Mead, developed a simple powerful method of designing fabricating very large-scale integration (VLSI) integrated circuits. Their method, often referred as “Mead-Conway,” began revolution IC design that continues this day.