Most of us never knew his name but we all owe him a debt of gratitude:
Later.................Howard
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Computer n. A pocket calculator with a glandular problem.
http://circuitsassembly.com/cms/content/view/1721/95/
From circuitsassembly.com:
Farewell to IC Legend Kilby
By Mike Buetow
Wednesday, 22 June 2005
DALLAS -- Jack Kilby, whose invented the integrated circuit in 1958 and
later shared in the Nobel Prize, died Monday of cancer. He was 81.
At Texas Instruments in 1958, Kilby built the first IC into a single piece
of semiconducting material half the size of a paper clip. Kilby also
co-invented the handheld electronic calculator that made TI a household
name.
"TI was the only company that agreed to let me work on electronic
component miniaturization more or less full time, and it turned out to be
a great fit," Kilby wrote in an autobiography for the Nobel Committee in
2000, the year he won the prize for physics.
The Nobel committee lauded Kilby for having "laid the foundation of modern
information technology."
Kilby was granted more than 60 U.S. patents in all. He was also a
recipient of the National Medal of Science.
Kilby was a graduate in electrical engineering from the University of
Illinois and University of Wisconsin.
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