Carver Mead: advisors and students

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Carver Mead

American computer scientist (born 1934)born 1934

Supervised 44 doctoral students (47 students at any level) at California Institute of Technology; Wikidata names Robert David Middlebrook as doctoral advisor and lists 10 doctoral students. Linked to Wikidata, Mathematics Genealogy Project, and 6 other registers.

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Students47

cited by a thesis record
Micah Seth Siegel “Genetically Engineered Sensors of Cell Signaling”
2000 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Kwabena Adu Boahen “Retinomorphic vision systems : reverse engineering the vertebrate retina”
1997 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Christopher J. Diorio “Neurally Inspired Silicon Learning : from Synapse Transistors to Learning Arrays”
1997 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Paul Edward Hasler “Foundations of learning in analog VLSI”
1997 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Shih-Chii Liu “Neuromorphic models of visual and motion processing in the fly visual system”
1997 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Bradley Arthur Minch “Analysis, synthesis, and implementation of networks of multiple-input translinear elements”
1997 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Rahul Sarpeshkar “Efficient precise computation with noisy components : extrapolating from an electronic cochlea to the brain”
1997 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Sylvie Adrienne Ryckebusch “The Central Nervous Control of Walking in the Locust Schistocerca americana”
1994 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Tobias Delbruck “Investigations of analog VLSI visual transduction and motion processing”
1993 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
David B. Kirk “Accurate and Precise Computation Using Analog VLSI, with Applications to Computer Graphics and Neural Networks”
1993 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Charles F. Neugebauer “Parallel Analog Computation with Charge Coupled Devices”
1993 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Donald Lloyd Watts “Cochlear Mechanics: Analysis and Analog VLSI”
1993 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Michelle A. Mahowald “VLSI Analogs of Neuronal Visual Processing: A Synthesis of Form and Function”
1992 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Stephen Paul DeWeerth “Analog VLSI Circuits for Sensorimotor Feedback”
1991 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Lounette M. Dyer “An Object-Oriented Real-Time Simulation of Music Performance Using Interactive Control”
1991 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Massimo Antonio Sivilotti “Wiring Considerations in Analog VLSI Systems, with Application to Field-Programmable Networks”
1991 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
John P. Lazzaro “Silicon Models of Early Audition”
1990 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Mary Ann Cecilia Maher “A Charge-Controlled Model for MOS Transistors”
1989 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
John Charles Wawrzynek “VLSI Concurrent Computation for Music Synthesis”
1987 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
John Paul Lazzaro “anaLOG: A Functional Simulator for VLSI Neural Systems”
1986 · California Institute of Technology · master's
cited by a thesis record
John Edward Tanner “Integrated Optical Motion Detection”
1986 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Tzu-Mu Lin “A Hierarchical Timing Simulation Model for Digital Integrated Circuits and Systems”
1985 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
John Carlton Platt “Sequential Threshold Circuits”
1985 · California Institute of Technology · master's
cited by a thesis record
Telle Elizabeth Whitney “Hierarchical Composition of VLSI Circuits”
1985 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Marina Chien-mei Chen “Space-time Algorithms: Semantics and Methodology”
1983 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Barry Bruce Megdal “VLSI Computational Structures Applied to Fingerprint Image Analysis”
1983 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Christopher Ralph Carroll “Hybrid Processing”
1982 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
David Lawrence Johannsen “Silicon Compilation”
1981 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Sally Anne Browning “The Tree Machine: A Highly Concurrent Computing Environment”
1980 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
James Allely Rowson “Understanding Hierarchical Design”
1980 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Vincent Sydney Wong Wooi Yee “Computational Structures for Extracting Edge Features from Digital Images for Real-Time Control Applications”
1979 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Gene Alan Clough “I. A Recirculating Charge-Coupled Device. II. The Mercury Selenide on N-Silicon Schottky Barrier”
1978 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Rodney Tak Masumoto “A 16-Bit LSI Digital Multiplier”
1978 · California Institute of Technology · level not given
cited by a thesis record
Moisés Eisenberg-Grünberg “Voltage Gateable Ionic Pores Induced by Alamethicin in Black Lipid Membranes”
1973 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Amr Mohamed Mohsen “Incomplete Charge Transfer in Overlapping Gates Charge Coupled Devices”
1973 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Michael Paul Anthony “Electrical and Optical Properties of Beta-Gallium Oxide”
1972 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Bruce Hoeneisen-Frost “I. Fundamental Limitations in Microelectronics. II. Power Schottky Diode Design and Comparison with the Junction Diode. III. Permittivity of Strontium Titanate”
1972 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Stephen L. Kurtin “Current Flow in Thin Solid Films: Thermionic Emission and Tunneling”
1971 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Richard Coulston Neville “Some Electronic Properties of ZnO and SrTiO₃”
1971 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Gerhard Hans Parker “Tunneling in Schottky Barriers”
1970 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Joseph Dean Taynai “Properties of α-Monoclinic Selenium”
1970 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
John Millard Caywood “Optical and Electrical Properties of α-Monoclinic Selenium”
1969 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Thomas Conley Jr McGill “The Evaluation of E-k Curves from Tunneling Currents”
1969 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
George Wladimir Lewicki “Electron Tunneling through Thin Films of Aluminum Nitride”
1966 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Joseph Maserjian “Conduction Through Thin Titanium Dioxide Films”
1966 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Karvel Kuhn Thornber “l. Electronic Processes in α-Sulfur. II. Polaron Motion in a D.C. Electric Field”
1966 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Malcolm McColl “Electron Current Through Thin Mica Films”
1964 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral

Advisors on Wikidata1

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Robert David Middlebrook

Students on Wikidata10

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stated by Wikidata
Thomas McGill
born 1942
stated by Wikidata
David Kirk
born 1960
stated by Wikidata
John C. Platt
born 1963
stated by Wikidata
Kwabena Boahen
born 1964
stated by Wikidata
Rahul Sarpeshkar
born 1968
stated by Wikidata
David I. Feinstein
stated by Wikidata
John Charles Wawrzynek
stated by Wikidata
John Wawrzynek
stated by Wikidata
Sally Anne Browning
stated by Wikidata
Stephen Paul DeWeerth

The line above and below4 steps

The advisors of their advisors, four steps up at most, in the thesis records and on Wikidata, each kind marked; a person in both is listed once.

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stated by WikidataRobert David Middlebrook
2 steps up
stated by WikidataJoseph M. Pettit
3 steps up
stated by WikidataFrederick Terman
4 steps up
stated by WikidataVannevar Bush

Below them, within 3 steps, the record reaches 67 people: 45 cited by thesis records, 22 stated by Wikidata.

Education and career2

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committee member, not advisor

cited by a thesis record
Micah Seth Siegel “Genetically Engineered Sensors of Cell Signaling”
committee member · 2000 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Sanjoy Sondhi Mahajan “Order of Magnitude Physics: A Textbook with Applications to the Retinal Rod and the Density of Prime Numbers”
committee member · 1998 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Kwabena Adu Boahen “Retinomorphic vision systems : reverse engineering the vertebrate retina”
committee member · 1997 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Christopher J. Diorio “Neurally Inspired Silicon Learning : from Synapse Transistors to Learning Arrays”
committee member · 1997 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Vidyabhusan Gupta “Analog VLSI for active drag reduction”
committee member · 1997 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Paul Edward Hasler “Foundations of learning in analog VLSI”
committee member · 1997 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Shih-Chii Liu “Neuromorphic models of visual and motion processing in the fly visual system”
committee member · 1997 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Bradley Arthur Minch “Analysis, synthesis, and implementation of networks of multiple-input translinear elements”
committee member · 1997 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Rahul Sarpeshkar “Efficient precise computation with noisy components : extrapolating from an electronic cochlea to the brain”
committee member · 1997 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Thomas Mark Annau “Models of visual feature detection and spike coding in the nervous system”
committee member · 1996 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Jiafu Luo “Monolithic GaAs VLSI optoelectronic neuron arrays”
committee member · 1996 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Igor Djokovic “Optimization issues in wavelets and filter banks”
committee member · 1995 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Harold Levy “Application and integration of quantum-effect devices for cellular VLSI”
committee member · 1995 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Volnei Antonio Pedroni “VLSI Systems for Analog and Hamming Parallel Computation”
committee member · 1995 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Frank Allen Perez “Hue Segmentation, Color Circuitry, and the Mantis Shrimp”
committee member · 1995 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Gert Cauwenberghs “Analog VLSI Autonomous Systems for Learning and Optimization”
committee member · 1994 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Ming-Chieh Lee “Still and Moving Image Compression Systems Using Multiscale Techniques”
committee member · 1994 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Sylvie Adrienne Ryckebusch “The Central Nervous Control of Walking in the Locust Schistocerca americana”
committee member · 1994 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Gamze Erten Salam “An analog VLSI architecture for stereo correspondence”
committee member · 1994 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Alan-Philippe Blanchard “Sequence specific effects on the incorporation of dideoxynucleotides by a modified T7 polymerase”
committee member · 1993 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Tobias Delbruck “Investigations of analog VLSI visual transduction and motion processing”
committee member · 1993 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Douglas A. Kerns “Experiments in Very Large-Scale Analog Computation”
committee member · 1993 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
David B. Kirk “Accurate and Precise Computation Using Analog VLSI, with Applications to Computer Graphics and Neural Networks”
committee member · 1993 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Charles F. Neugebauer “Parallel Analog Computation with Charge Coupled Devices”
committee member · 1993 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Carl F. Ruoff “Robotic hand-eye motor learning”
committee member · 1993 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Donald Lloyd Watts “Cochlear Mechanics: Analysis and Analog VLSI”
committee member · 1993 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Ronen Barzel “A structured approach to physically-based modeling for computer graphics”
committee member · 1992 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
William John Andrew Fyfe “Invariance hints and the VC dimension”
committee member · 1992 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Michelle A. Mahowald “VLSI Analogs of Neuronal Visual Processing: A Synthesis of Form and Function”
committee member · 1992 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Andrew John Moore “Spatial Filtering in Tone Reproduction and Vision”
committee member · 1992 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Amir Atiya “Learning algorithms for neural networks”
committee member · 1991 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Stephen Paul DeWeerth “Analog VLSI Circuits for Sensorimotor Feedback”
committee member · 1991 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Lounette M. Dyer “An Object-Oriented Real-Time Simulation of Music Performance Using Interactive Control”
committee member · 1991 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Ruth Ann Erlanson “Soft-Decision Decoding of a Family of Nonlinear Codes Using a Neural Network”
committee member · 1991 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
John Gregory Harris “Analog Models for Early Vision”
committee member · 1991 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Massimo Antonio Sivilotti “Wiring Considerations in Analog VLSI Systems, with Application to Field-Programmable Networks”
committee member · 1991 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
John P. Lazzaro “Silicon Models of Early Audition”
committee member · 1990 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Mary Ann Cecilia Maher “A Charge-Controlled Model for MOS Transistors”
committee member · 1989 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
John Carlton Platt “Constraint Methods for Neural Networks and Computer Graphics”
committee member · 1989 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Brian Von Herzen “Applications of Surface Networks to Sampling Problems in Computer Graphics”
committee member · 1989 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Ted Kirk Woodward “Experimental Studies of Heterostructure Devices: Resonant Tunneling Transistors and GaAs/AlAs/GaAs Capacitors”
committee member · 1988 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
William C. Jr Athas “Fine Grain Concurrent Computations”
committee member · 1987 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Leonid Iakov Rudin “Images, Numerical Analysis of Singularities and Shock Filters”
committee member · 1987 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Kelvin H. Wagner “Time and Space Integrating Acousto-Optic Signal Processing”
committee member · 1987 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
John Charles Wawrzynek “VLSI Concurrent Computation for Music Synthesis”
committee member · 1987 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
David I. Feinstein “Relating Thermodynamics to Information Theory: The Equality of Free Energy and Mutual Information”
committee member · 1986 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Eric Daniel Mjolsness “Neural Networks, Pattern Recognition, and Fingerprint Hallucination”
committee member · 1986 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
John Stephen Smith “III-V Molecular Beam Epitaxy Structures for Electronic and Optoelectronic Applications”
committee member · 1986 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
John Edward Tanner “Integrated Optical Motion Detection”
committee member · 1986 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Sheue-Ling Chang Lien “Combining Computation with Geometry”
committee member · 1985 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Tzu-Mu Lin “A Hierarchical Timing Simulation Model for Digital Integrated Circuits and Systems”
committee member · 1985 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Arati Prabhakar “Investigations of Deep Level Defects in Semiconductor Material Systems”
committee member · 1985 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Daniel Steven Whelan “ANIMAC: A Multiprocessor Architecture for Real-Time Computer Animation”
committee member · 1985 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Telle Elizabeth Whitney “Hierarchical Composition of VLSI Circuits”
committee member · 1985 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Alexandros Christou Papachristidis “Heterogeneous Data Base Access”
committee member · 1984 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Yaser Said Abu-Mostafa “Complexity of Information Extraction”
committee member · 1983 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Marina Chien-mei Chen “Space-time Algorithms: Semantics and Methodology”
committee member · 1983 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Erik Penn DeBenedictis “Techniques for Testing Integrated Circuits”
committee member · 1983 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Robert Warren Jr Erickson “Large Signals in Switching Converters”
committee member · 1983 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Barry Bruce Megdal “VLSI Computational Structures Applied to Fingerprint Image Analysis”
committee member · 1983 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
David James Trawick “Robust Sentence Analysis and Habitability”
committee member · 1983 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Stephen Mathias Trimberger “Automated Performance Optimization of Custom Integrated Circuits”
committee member · 1983 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Christopher Ralph Carroll “Hybrid Processing”
committee member · 1982 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
David Lawrence Johannsen “Silicon Compilation”
committee member · 1981 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Slobodan M. Ćuk “Modelling, Analysis, and Design of Switching Converters”
committee member · 1977 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral
cited by a thesis record
Alvin L. Kwiram “I. A Chemical Application of Electron-Nuclear Double Resonance. II. Auxiliary Equipment”
committee member · 1963 · California Institute of Technology · doctoral

At a glance

known as: computer scientist, physicist, inventor, engineer, businessperson, electrical engineer, university teacher
fields: microelectronics, classical electromagnetism, artificial neural network, simulation
awards: National Medal of Technology and Innovation, 2002, Lemelson–MIT Prize, 1999, John Price Wetherill Medal, 1985, IEEE John von Neumann Medal, 1996, Harold Pender Award, 1984, National Inventors Hall of Fame, 2009, Computer History Museum Fellow, ACM-AAAI Allen Newell Award, 1997, Phil Kaufman Award, 1996, Harry H. Goode Memorial Award, 1985, BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award, 2011, Dickson Prize in Science, 2002, Fellow of the American Physical Society, IEEE Neural Networks Pioneer Award, Kyoto Prize in Advanced Technology, 2022, Captain Robert Dexter Conrad Award, 1993
member of: National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, American Physical Society
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stated by WikidataVIAF32253855
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stated by WikidataIdRef058604561
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@misc{academicancestry_Q62910,
  author = {{Academic Ancestry}},
  title = {{Carver Mead: advisors and students}},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://academicancestry.org/person/Q62910},
  note = {read on 2026-10-31}
}

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Academic Ancestry. (2026, October 31). Carver Mead: Advisors and students [Read on 2026-10-31]. https://academicancestry.org/person/Q62910