Awards
- In 1981 Electronics Magazine presented Mead and Conway with its annual Award for Achievement.
- In 1985 he was awarded the John Price Wetherill Medal from The Franklin Institute.
- In 1996 Mead was honored with the Phil Kaufman Award for his impact on electronic design industry.
- In 1999 Mead received the Lemelson-MIT Prize.
- In 2002 Mead was awarded the National Medal of Technology.
- Also in 2002 Mead received the Computer History Museum Fellow Award, "for his contributions in pioneering the automation, methodology and teaching of integrated circuit design".
- 2011 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award of Information and Communication Technologies for his influential thinking in silicon technology. His work has enabled the development of the microchips that drive the electronic devices (laptops, tablets, smartphones, DVD players) ubiquitous in our daily.
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