Conilee Kirkpatrick

Conilee Gay Kirkpatrick (born 1948)[1] is an American electronics engineer.

Education and career

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

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
  1. American Men and Women of Science: The physical and biological sciences, Volume 4, Bowker, 1986, p. 350
  2. Kirkpatrick, Conilee Gay (1974), Photoluminescence from Ion Implanted Silicon, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Coordinated Science Laboratory, hdl:2142/75548, ProQuest 302705551
  3. 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.
  4. Microelectronics Research and Development (PDF), Office of Technology Assessment, March 1986
  5. National Research Council (2010), An Enabling Foundation for NASA's Earth and Space Science Missions, National Academies Press, p. 62, ISBN 9780309151580
  6. "SAIC designing mind-reading computer", Computerworld, p. 17, 23 July 1990
  7. "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
  8. Johnson, Deron (8 October 2017), IEEE Buenaventura Hosts "Girls Make Tech with Heart" STEM Event, IEEE Buenaventura Section, retrieved 2021-06-20
  9. IEEE Fellows directory, IEEE, retrieved 2021-06-20
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