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Our Travels Through Time
Our Travels Through Time: Envisioning historical waves of technological innovation
Professor Lynn Conway, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Emerita, University of Michigan, will be presented with the 2015 IEEE/RSE James Clerk Maxwell Medal, supported by Cirrus Logic at the Royal Society of Edinburgh, “for contributions to and leadership in design methodology and pedagogy enabling rapid advances and dissemination of VLSI design tools and systems.” The James Clerk Maxwell Medal is one of the highest awards presented by IEEE.
In this talk, Lynn reflects on past waves of technological innovation, from the Age of Discovery to the Industrial Revolution, and from the sudden spread of AC electrification to the emergence of microelectronics, computers and the internet. She’ll then help us glimpse the incoming tsunami of innovation … now just over the time-horizon of the emerging Social Age … as we embed ever tinier, ever more empowering modular-microsystems into, and thus creatively animate and socially connect with, almost everything.
This event is supported by Cirrus Logic.