“Covering”: How We Missed the Inside-Story of the VLSI Revolution
@article{Shepard2012CoveringHW, title={“Covering”: How We Missed the Inside-Story of the VLSI Revolution}, author={Kenneth L. Shepard}, journal={IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine}, year={2012}, volume={4}, pages={40-42} }
I'm delighted to comment on Lynn Conway's outstanding piece “Reminiscences of the VLSI Revolution: How a series of failures triggered a paradigm shift in digital design.” What we often forget in engineering and science is that innovation and technological progress happen because of actions of people, people who have personalities, lives, and life stories that influence them and are influenced by those around them. Lynn's story provides a case in point.
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The Disappeared: Beyond Winning and Losing
- Political ScienceComputer
- 2018
The Conway Effect is introduced to elucidate the disappearance process of “others” who make innovative contributions in scientific and technical fields and their contributions are ascribed elsewhere.