Conilee Kirkpatrick

Kirkpatrick graduated from Washington University in St. Louis in 1969{{r|amws}} and earned a PhD at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1974, with the dissertation Photoluminescence from Ion Implanted Silicon.{{r|diss}} She worked for General Electric on storage tube technology in the 1970s,{{r|beamos}} and became director of advanced technology implementation for Rockwell International's Microelectronics R&D Center.{{r|rockwell}} As a senior scientist at Science Applications International Corporation,{{r|saic-hrl}} she developed an artificial neural network on an integrated circuit, to be used as an AI accelerator.{{r|neural}} She later became a vice president of HRL Laboratories,{{r|saic-hrl}} and a member of the National Materials Advisory Board of the National Research Council.{{r|nmab}}

Along with her professional work in engineering, Kirkpatrick has been active in mentoring Southern California middle-school girls in engineering.{{r|heart}}

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".{{r|fieee}}

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{{citation|url=http://rcaselectron.com/GEBEAMOS.html|title=The RCA Selectron – General Electric BEAMOS Tube|publisher=RCA Selectron|access-date=2021-06-20}} Includes a news clipping from 1975 showing Kirkpatrick holding a memory tube. See also [https://books.google.com/books?id=9TMEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA48 The Rotarian, November 1975, p. 48].

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{{citation|url=https://www.princeton.edu/~ota/disk2/1986/8613/861301.PDF|title=Microelectronics Research and Development|date=March 1986|publisher=Office of Technology Assessment}}

{{citation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IN-dcaceofwC&pg=PR74|page=62|title=An Enabling Foundation for NASA's Earth and Space Science Missions|author=National Research Council|publisher=National Academies Press|year=2010|isbn=9780309151580}}

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