Misha Mahowald
Misha Mahowald | |
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| Born | Michelle Anne Mahowald January 12, 1963 |
| Died | December 26, 1996 (aged 33) Zürich, Switzerland |
| Education | California Institute of Technology (BS, PhD) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Neuroscience |
| Thesis | VLSI analogs of neuronal visual processing: a synthesis of form and function (1992) |
| Doctoral advisor | Carver Mead |
Michelle Anne Mahowald (January 12, 1963 – December 26, 1996) was an American computational neuroscientist in the emerging field of neuromorphic engineering. In 1996 she was inducted into the Women in Technology International Hall of Fame for her development of the Silicon Eye and other computational systems. She died by suicide at age 33.