Carver Mead

thumbnail|Carver Mead in 2005 Carver Andress Mead (born 1 May 1934) is an American scientist and engineer. He currently holds the position of Gordon and Betty Moore Professor Emeritus of Engineering and Applied Science at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), having taught there for over 40 years. Quotes The brain has this wonderful property — you can go through and shoot out every tenth neuron and never miss them. Quoted in T. A. Heppenheimer. Nerves of silicon. Discover, 9(2):70-79, February 1988. Listen to the technology; find out what it's telling you. Lohr Steve 2010-01-30 Steve Jobs and the Economics of Elitism https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/weekinreview/31lohr.html 2025-03-20 The New York Times en-US 0362-4331 The quantum world is a world of waves, not particles. So we have to think of electron waves and proton waves and so on. Matter is 'incoherent' when all its waves have a different wavelength, implying a different momentum. On the other hand, if you take a pure quantum system – the electrons in a superconducting magnet, or the atoms in a laser – they are all in phase with one another, and they demonstrate the wave nature of matter on a large scale. Then you can see quite visibly what matter is down at its heart. "An Interview with Carver Mead", American Spectator, Sep/Oct2001, Vol. 34 Issue 7, p68. External links Category:People from California Category:Computer scientists from the United States Category:Electrical engineers Category:Living people Category:Academics from the United States Category:California Institute of Technology alumni Category:California Institute of Technology faculty Category:Engineers from the United States