While in Silicon Valley for the 59^th Design Automation Conference, I was offered the opportunity for an exclusive interview for EE Times with the legendary Carver Mead. Not one to say no to such a request, I was certainly glad to talk through some of what will be considered his legacy for generations to come.

An electronics engineer and applied physicist, Carver Mead, a Gordon and Betty Moore Professor of Engineering and Applied Science, Emeritus, at California Institute of Technology, was last month named the 2022 Kyoto Prize laureate in Advanced Technology. This is an international award bestowed by the non–profit Inamori Foundation to honor those who have contributed significantly to humankind’s scientific, cultural, and spiritual betterment; the Kyoto Prize was also bestowed upon Mead’s fellow Synaptics founder Federico Faggin in 1997.

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