TRINITY

COLLEGE

HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT

 Lynn Conway

Microelectronics pioneer, engineering innovator, and

accomplished academician, you have made fundamental

contributions to integrated circuitry and system designs

that accelerate the dispersal of new ideas throughout

the engineering community. For two decades, first at

IBM Research and later at the Xerox Palo Al to Research

Center, you made major research contributions to

ultra-high performance computers and knowledge

engineering methodology. Your innovative research

led to a new generation of microelectronic systems

known for ease of design and implementation. Joining

the Defense Department's research arm in 1983, you

were one of the founders and technical architects of a

strategic computing initiative to develop a wide range

of machine intelligence technology. Today, as professor

of electrical engineering and computer science, and

associate dean of the College of Engineering at the

University of Michigan, you spur educational and

research initiatives to integrate artificial intelligence

into mechanical systems. Co-author of the classic text

on very large-scale integrated chip design, you are also

a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics

Engineers and a member of the National Academy of

Engineering and of the Board of Visitors of the U.S. Air

Force Academy. For your abiding curiosity, your

cogent insights, and your inspiration to generations of

engineers, we have the honor to confer on you, Lynn

Conway, the degree of Doctor of Humane Letters,

honoris causa.

Evan S. Dobelle

President

Thomas S. Johnson

Chairman of the Board

November 7, 1997