Jack Kilby, Integrated Circuit Inventor, Dies

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Jack Kilby, Inventor of Integrated
Circuit, Dies

Jack Kilby, Inventor of Integrated
Circuit, Dies 06/22/2005 02:16 AM
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Jack Kilby, inventor of the integrated circuit, the basis of the computer chip revolution and foundation of what is now a trillion-dollar industry, died of cancer on Monday.

Integrated Circuit Inventor Jack Kilby
Dead at 81

Integrated Circuit Inventor Jack Kilby
Dead at 81 06/22/2005 01:47 AM

Jack Kilby, integrated circuit pioneer,
dead at 81

Jack Kilby, integrated circuit pioneer,
dead at 81 06/22/2005 02:56 AM

SAN FRANCISCO - Jack Kilby, whose work in the late 1950s on the integrated circuit paved the way for the modern computing era, died Monday in Dallas at the age of 81 after a brief struggle against cancer, Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) announced Tuesday.

The Nobel Prize-winning engineer developed one of the first integrated circuits, a collection of transistors organized to work on computing tasks. Kilby and TI built an integrated circuit in 1958, and filed for a patent for the device in 1959, a few months before Intel Corp. co-founder Robert Noyce also filed for an integrated circuit patent while employed by Fairchild Semiconductor Corp.

Fairchild and TI eventually settled their legal differences over the creation of the first integrated circuit and cross-licensed their technologies, allowing the semiconductor industry to flourish.

But Kilby was also responsible for several other groundbreaking inventions while employed by TI, including a handheld electronic calculator and a thermal printer, TI said in a release.

"Jack was one of the true pioneers of the semiconductor industry," said TI President and Chief Executive Officer Rich Templeton, in the release. "Every engineer, myself included, owes no small part of their livelihood to the work Jack Kilby did here at Texas Instruments. We will miss him."

Kilby worked for TI from 1958 to 1983, holding several management positions over his tenure. He was also a professor at Texas A&M University from 1978 to 1984.

He received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000 for his contributions to the development of the integrated circuit.

Kilby leaves two daughters, five grandaugthers and a son-in-law, TI said. Funeral arrangements have not been finalized.

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News: Jack Kilby, integrated circuit
pioneer, dead at 81

News: Jack Kilby, integrated circuit
pioneer, dead at 81 06/22/2005 02:33 AM
One of the early innovators in the computing industry, Jack Kilby, died Monday at the age of 81.

Jack S. Kilby, an Inventor of the
Microchip, Is Dead at 81

Jack S. Kilby, an Inventor of the
Microchip, Is Dead at 81 06/22/2005 02:03 AM
Jack S. Kilby, an electrical engineer whose invention of the integrated circuit gave rise to the information age, died Monday in Dallas.

IC pioneer Jack Kilby dies

IC pioneer Jack Kilby dies 06/22/2005 02:47 AM
The chip started here

Microchip Pioneer Jack Kilby Dies at 81
(AP)

Microchip Pioneer Jack Kilby Dies at 81
(AP) 06/22/2005 02:36 AM
AP - Nobel laureate Jack Kilby, whose 1958 invention of the integrated circuit ushered in the modern electronics age and made possible the microprocessor, has died after a battle with cancer.

Microchip pioneer Jack Kilby Dies at 81

Microchip pioneer Jack Kilby Dies at 81 06/22/2005 01:50 AM
Xeni Jardin: Snip:

Nobel laureate Jack Kilby, whose 1958 invention of the integrated circuit opened the way for the microchips that are the brains of today's computers, video games, DVD players and cell phones, has died after a battle with cancer. He was 81. Kilby died Monday, according to Texas Instruments, where Kilby worked for many years.

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Father of integrated circuit dies

Father of integrated circuit dies 06/24/2005 03:33 PM
Jack Kilby, credited with inventing the integrated circuit in 1958, passed away earlier this week at the age of 81.

Former 'Tonight Show' Host Jack Paar
Dies (AP)

Former 'Tonight Show' Host Jack Paar
Dies (AP) 01/27/2004 05:17 PM
AP - Jack Paar, who held the nation's rapt attention as he pioneered late-night talk on "The Tonight Show," then told his viewers farewell when still in his prime, died Tuesday. He was 85.

Jack Paar, 85, Former 'Tonight' Show
Host, Dies

Jack Paar, 85, Former 'Tonight' Show
Host, Dies 01/27/2004 05:15 PM
Jack Paar was a prickly, often emotional and always unpredictable humorist who hosted the "Tonight" show from 1957 to 1962, died today.

Mutual of Omaha CEO Jack Weekly dies
Paraplegic sues Chrysler over heated
seat Mass. cos. deny gay w

Mutual of Omaha CEO Jack Weekly dies
Paraplegic sues Chrysler over heated
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Orkut Circuit

Orkut Circuit 01/25/2004 10:32 AM

After my first lap (day) of Orkut, I got these to share.

It's supposedly writ ten in ASP.NET.  That one surprised me.

It has many security and privacy issues just as other social networking services have.  For example, one can send a message to thousands of members with only a few clicks.  There could be some XSS (cross-site scripting) problems as well.  But, overall, I have yet to see anything that can be resolved over time given sufficient technical and financial interests.

Invitation-only aspect of Orkut blew me away in terms of its effect and its meaning.  Since you can't just register without an invitation from someone within, it creates a sense of value that drives people to signup.

As to the meaning, what invitation-only means is that everyone who is a member of Orkut knows Orkut himself through a string of friends.  It means you have joined a six-degree of separation experiment where the starting end is Orkut Buyukkokten.  I'll bet that was why it was named Orkut.

I am not yet convinced that there exists a workable revenue model behind Orkut but then I have similar opinions about Rovers in Mars.  Entertaining thoughts about what might lie beyond the horizon with a bunch of geeky friends is a reward enough for now.  To this end, I created an Orkut Community titled “Orkut Design” to examine Orkut in detail.

Circuit City - Never Again!

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“So I needed to buy a DVD player on New Years Eve 2000 (going onto 2001) because I wanted to watch a couple of movies and happened to go to Circuit City (the 14th Street Union Square store). At that time they had a promotion that if one bought a 26” TV or bigger, you would get a free DVD player. This I felt was the perfect opportunity to upgrade my crappy 20” TV so…

Short Circuit

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Sad End to Computing's Inventor

Sad End to Computing's Inventor 11/06/2003 11:08 AM
Wouldn't it be cool to be the guy who invented the computer? Thanks to the greed and viciousness of powerful competing interests, it wasn't very cool at all. Michelle Delio reports from Philadelphia.

The last lone inventor

The last lone inventor 06/22/2004 11:38 PM
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Qt universal circuit simulator

Qt universal circuit simulator 12/08/2003 12:56 PM
Qucs 0.0.1 has been released.

Visual Circuit Board

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Circuit City a Little Short?

Circuit City a Little Short? 06/04/2004 03:25 PM
Circuit City's first-quarter sales figures yield some improvement, but guess whose look better?

First Ever Nanotube Transistors On A
Circuit

First Ever Nanotube Transistors On A
Circuit 01/07/2004 02:38 PM
btsdev writes "Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley and Stanford University have developed the first ever integrated silicon circuit with ...

Circuit City's Improving

Circuit City's Improving 09/17/2004 02:33 PM
The No. 2 electronics retailer is making strides and beats estimates.

Pity Circuit City

Pity Circuit City 12/19/2004 03:27 PM
Circuit City sales are still slacking. How about trying something different?

FCC Chairman at Circuit City -- I don't
believe it

FCC Chairman at Circuit City -- I don't
believe it 05/14/2004 03:26 PM
A USA Today article reports that FCC Chairman Michael Powell recently went to Circuit City to switch his phone number to a new carrier:

FCC Chairman Michael Powell said he switched carriers for his work wireless phone as well as for his wife and son at a Circuit City outlet and the moves were done in an hour.

"I was shocked at how well it worked," Powell said. He declined to identify the carriers but said his name was not on the accounts so he did not receive favorable treatment.

What kind of stunt is this? Doesn't Powell have an army of factotums to do this kind of thing for him? And how was he able to change a phone account that didn't have his name on it? Furthermore, didn't the Circuit City people ask to see an ID to see if his name matched the name on the phone account? How did he pay for the account -- using a credit card with a fake name on it? Link

Same Story at Circuit City

Same Story at Circuit City 09/07/2004 12:19 PM
August presented a challenge for yet another retailer.

Lemelson-MIT Recognizes Inventor of LED
(AP)

Lemelson-MIT Recognizes Inventor of LED
(AP) 04/21/2004 08:55 AM
AP - When Nick Holonyak Jr. set out to create a new kind of visible lighting using semiconductor alloys, his colleagues thought he was "nuttier than hell." Today, his discovery of light-emitting diodes, or LEDs, are used in everything from DVDs to alarm clocks to the NASDAQ stock billboard in New York. Dozens of his students have continued his work, developing lighting used in traffic lights and other everyday technology.

Da Vinci: Inventor of car? (Reuters)

Da Vinci: Inventor of car? (Reuters) 04/26/2004 09:02 AM
Reuters - Leonardo da Vinci is revered around the world as a master of Renaissance painting and an ingenious engineer, but few have thought of him as the father of the modern car.

Update: Open Inventor 5.0

Update: Open Inventor 5.0 08/12/2004 11:27 AM
Open Inventor, an object-oriented, cross-platform 3D graphics API for C++ and Java developers, is also now available for Mac OS X.

New honour for web's inventor

New honour for web's inventor 07/17/2004 01:19 AM
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Other News: Web Inventor Honored 06/16/2004 10:22 AM
Tim Berners-Lee wins a big prize for inventing an open Web, and TechNewsWorld notes some of the other Internet creators.

Inventor nose his computers

Inventor nose his computers 09/16/2004 09:28 AM
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OP - ED : Honouring the Web ’ s inventor
— Q Isa Daudpota

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— Q Isa Daudpota 06/16/2004 06:16 PM
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Wiki inventor goes to MSFT

Wiki inventor goes to MSFT 12/14/2003 09:53 PM
Ward Cunningham, the inventor of wikis, is taking a job at Microsoft: he's put up a wiki page to solicit advice for surviving there.

You can have a huge impact on Microsoft's culture. Push yourself to the max. Prepare the family -- working at Microsoft is fun and I went overboard. Sometimes the family doesn't understand. Take days to yourself. Try to build friendships and get a mentor or two. That'll help.

Link (via Many2Many)

Da Vinci: Inventor of the Car? (Reuters)

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Lemelson-MIT Recognizes Inventor of LED

Lemelson-MIT Recognizes Inventor of LED 04/21/2004 01:07 PM
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Ctrl-Alt-Del Inventor To Retire From IBM

Ctrl-Alt-Del Inventor To Retire From IBM 01/29/2004 05:53 AM

SleepTracker Inventor Interviewed

SleepTracker Inventor Interviewed 04/15/2005 09:59 AM

The SleepTracker watch has been a total success from what I can divine. We actually called to get one in for review because so many people were asking about it and the company said they didn't have a single review unit to spare (I probably should have turned off Unskinny Bop while calling). Gear Live has an interview with Lee Loree, the inventor of the watch that helps you wake up at the optimal time.

The next night I allowed our dog back into our room.  3 times she woke me to where I sat up in bed and was visibly disturbed (I video tape the nights I run tests).

Kinky, but that's science for you.

Interview with Lee Loree, SLEEPTRACKER Inventor [GearLive]

Web Inventor Takes the Prize

Web Inventor Takes the Prize 04/16/2004 04:51 AM
The Finnish Technology Award Foundation awarded Tim Berners-Lee, the scientist credited with creating the World Wide Web, the first Millenium Technology Prize. The award, worth $1.2 million, is among the largest of its kind.

New honour for the web's inventor

New honour for the web's inventor 04/15/2004 05:06 AM
The web's inventor, Tim Berners-Lee, wins a prestigious prize which comes with an award of one million euros.
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