Conilee Gay Kirkpatrick (born 1948)[1] is an American electronics engineer.
Education and career edit
Kirkpatrick graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 1969[1] and earned a PhD at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1974, with the dissertation Photoluminescence from Ion Implanted Silicon.[2] She worked for General Electric on storage tube technology in the 1970s,[3] and became director of advanced technology implementation for Rockwell International's Microelectronics R&D Center.[4] As a senior scientist at Science Applications International Corporation,[5] she developed an artificial neural network on an integrated circuit, to be used as an AI accelerator.[6] She later became a vice president of HRL Laboratories,[5] and a member of the National Materials Advisory Board of the National Research Council.[7]
Along with her professional work in engineering, Kirkpatrick has been active in mentoring Southern California middle-school girls in engineering.[8]
Recognition edit
Kirkpatrick was named a Fellow of the IEEE in 1998, "for leadership in development and manufacturing of III-V electronic materials and devices and their application to military and commercial systems".[9]
References edit
- ^ a b American Men and Women of Science: The physical and biological sciences, Volume 4, Bowker, 1986, p. 350
- ^ Kirkpatrick, Conilee Gay (1974), Photoluminescence from Ion Implanted Silicon, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Coordinated Science Laboratory, hdl:2142/75548, ProQuest 302705551
- ^ The RCA Selectron – General Electric BEAMOS Tube, RCA Selectron, retrieved 2021-06-20 Includes a news clipping from 1975 showing Kirkpatrick holding a memory tube. See also The Rotarian, November 1975, p. 48.
- ^ Microelectronics Research and Development (PDF), Office of Technology Assessment, March 1986
- ^ a b National Research Council (2010), An Enabling Foundation for NASA's Earth and Space Science Missions, National Academies Press, p. 62, ISBN 9780309151580
- ^ "SAIC designing mind-reading computer", Computerworld, p. 17, 23 July 1990
- ^ "National Materials Advisory Board", Capturing the Full Power of Biomaterials for Military Medicine: Report of a Workshop, National Center for Biotechnology Information, 2004, retrieved 2021-06-20
- ^ Johnson, Deron (8 October 2017), IEEE Buenaventura Hosts "Girls Make Tech with Heart" STEM Event, IEEE Buenaventura Section, retrieved 2021-06-20
- ^ IEEE Fellows directory, IEEE, retrieved 2021-06-20