Lynn Conway is a famed pioneer of microelectronics chip design . Her innovations during the 1970's at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) have impacted chip design worldwide. Many high-tech companies and computing methods have foundations in her work. Thousands of chip designers learned their craft from Lynn's textbook Introduction to VLSI Systems , which she co-authored with Prof. Carver Mead of Caltech. ai.eecs.umich.edu
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