TOOLS OF SCIENCE
A series of meetings
hosted by The Physics Museum,
The University of Queensland
For students, scientists,
engineers, historians of science and technology, teachers,
collectors, and all those fascinated by old scientific instruments
| March
15 Robert Holmstrom |
Building the first Microprocessor |
The second Tools of Science meeting for 2007 will be held at 6pm on Thursday March 15 in Parnell (7) LR326* The speaker will be Robert Holmstrom and the topic: Building the first microprocessor The Intel 4004 microprocessor was 35 years old in 2006. Robert was a member of the team that created it. There is a lot of information available on the web and in the literature about the 4004 as an object, but very little about the semiconductor process and equipment development that helped make it possible. Theory is fine but in the real world you have to make things for less than you can sell them for. Robert will give some back ground on the 4004 and its place in history but the main content will be on some of the many other contributions to the project. He will present several examples of process and equipment engineering that occurred in parallel with the circuit design. Bob Holmstrom hails from Portland Oregon USA. He holds Bachelors and Masters Degrees in Electrical Engineering from The University of California at Berkeley. After a career as engineer at Sprague Electric, Intel, Inmos, and Ateq/Eteq, he is currently the editor of the Horological Science Newsletter. Light refreshments will be served after the talk. *Note change from former venue. As a result of UQ room allocation policy, Tools of Science will no longer have a permanent home, so please note the different venue each time. |
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