A Paradigm Shift Was Happening All Around Us
@article{House2012APS, title={A Paradigm Shift Was Happening All Around Us}, author={Charles H. House}, journal={IEEE Solid-State Circuits Magazine}, year={2012}, volume={4}, pages={32-35} }
Thankfully, Ridley Scott's brilliant Super Bowl ad, proclaiming that 1984 won't be like 1984, heralded a Golden Age of Electronics instead of George Orwell's dyspeptic scenario. Apple's Macintosh debuted, Hewlett-Packard and its new LaserJet printer set record sales and profits for Silicon Valley companies, and I met Lynn Conway when we both joined the IEEE Spectrum Advisory Board. Although Conway was a bit shy and had held back from the limelight, I already “knew” her. As HP's Corporate…
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