Father of integrated circuit 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.

Jack Kilby, Integrated Circuit Inventor,
Dies

Jack Kilby, Integrated Circuit Inventor,
Dies 06/22/2005 02:41 AM

About the only thing that doesn’t have IC’s, or their descendents, in them today are toilet tissue rolls. Oh, and breakfast cereal, but I expect those to be covered sometime this fall. The year was 1958 and the world was deep into the newest craze: rock and roll. Down in Texas, Jack Kilby was showing the very first integrated circuit to the world….

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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.

Drummer's father dies at festival

Drummer's father dies at festival 06/29/2004 03:51 AM
The father of Muse drummer Dominic Howard dies of an apparent heart attack after the band play Glastonbury.

Circuit City - Never Again!

Circuit City - Never Again! 07/20/2004 01:00 PM

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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…

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.

Short Circuit

Short Circuit 04/04/2005 06:03 AM
This month: W. Alan McCollough, CEO of Circuit City Stores.

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?

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

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 ...

Visual Circuit Board

Visual Circuit Board 10/29/2003 07:11 PM
GraphEditor 0.6 is available

Same Story at Circuit City

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

Qt universal circuit simulator

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

Circuit City Trims Its Losses

Circuit City Trims Its Losses 09/17/2004 03:51 PM
TechWeb Sep 17 2004 7:45PM GMT

A circuit-switched email network

A circuit-switched email network 09/22/2004 04:52 PM
Right now the global email network is pretty much a large scale packet-switched network. Packets (emails) are passed from node to node, on a potentially dynamically changing path, until they reach the endpoint. Individual hops are synchronous but the system on the whole is asynchronous. (Deferrals.)

Grokster Wins Big in Ninth Circuit

Grokster Wins Big in Ninth Circuit 08/19/2004 04:39 PM

Circuit City Migrating to Linux

Circuit City Migrating to Linux 08/13/2004 03:31 AM
Slashdot Aug 13 2004 8:24AM GMT

Web phones connect on buzz circuit

Web phones connect on buzz circuit 08/22/2004 07:52 AM
Chicago Tribune Aug 22 2004 10:54AM GMT

Circuit City moving to Linux

Circuit City moving to Linux 08/11/2004 06:40 AM
In a press release sent to NewsForge (and probably every other media outlet in the world) yesterday, IBM announced that consumer electronics retailer Circuit City expects to be running most of its critical day-to-day computing functions on Linux by 2006. (Full text of press release below.)

Sun Working to Eliminate Circuit Boards

Sun Working to Eliminate Circuit Boards 08/03/2004 10:37 AM

General Motors' Short Circuit?

General Motors' Short Circuit? 02/10/2004 11:57 AM
GM's trials and tribulations -- and recalls -- continue.

Post-circuit-switched voicemail

Post-circuit-switched voicemail 11/01/2003 12:57 PM
Nice rant on how "circuit-switched" thinking is holding back advancement in telephony:

Assume a phone call requires an (extremely generous) 3Kb per second of audio. One hour of stored audio is about 10Mb of data. This is a pretty modest amount by the standards of modern flash memeory. Your mobile phone is perfectly capable of storing all your voicemail. The network is perfectly capable of transmitting the data in a sensible amount of time. Unlike email, most voicemail is listened to -- the amount of wasted download is small...

You should be able to listen to voicemails on your plane journey home. You should be able to reply to them on a store-and-forward basis, even when you're not connected to the network. And most of all, you shouldn't have to use a clunky telephony user interface to navigate a message queue. And you shouldn't be restricted to one device for accessing your own data.

Link (via Werblog)

Santa Skips Circuit City

Santa Skips Circuit City 01/05/2005 01:36 PM
Circuit City gets a lump of coal in its stocking.

IBM Creates Molecular Computer Circuit

IBM Creates Molecular Computer Circuit 03/20/2003 01:05 PM
IBM scientists have built a computer circuit that is a quantum leap smaller than any yet created, using a technique they call "molecule cascade." The company's scientists claim this technique enables them to make computer logic elements 260,000 times smaller than those in today's silicon semiconductor chips.

Best Buy, Circuit City delay results

Best Buy, Circuit City delay results 03/30/2005 11:39 AM
globetechnology.com Mar 30 2005 3:27PM GMT

Don't Short-Circuit Standard Micro

Don't Short-Circuit Standard Micro 06/14/2004 01:02 PM
Has this smaller maker of semiconductor technology been overlooked?

Retirees to Race Buggies on F-1 Circuit
(Reuters)

Retirees to Race Buggies on F-1 Circuit
(Reuters) 07/13/2004 12:30 PM
Reuters - Dozens of Dutch retirees will take to a Formula One track this month to race each other in battery-powered buggies to promote greater mobility for the elderly and infirm.

Apple, Circuit City Head To Carousel

Apple, Circuit City Head To Carousel 08/01/2004 10:00 AM
Two big names in retail electronics and computers are coming to Carousel Center mall in the fall: Circuit City and an Apple store from Apple Computer. By Bob Niedt, Syracuse Post-Standard (via MyAppleMenu)

Circuit City narrows loss in second
quarter

Circuit City narrows loss in second
quarter 09/17/2004 02:18 PM
San Jose Mercury News Sep 17 2004 6:18PM GMT

Circuit City Hears Verizon's Call

Circuit City Hears Verizon's Call 08/31/2004 11:24 AM
Electronics superstore drops T-Mobile wireless service to make room.

Verizon sets up home in Circuit City

Verizon sets up home in Circuit City 08/30/2004 03:24 PM
The wireless carrier will open showrooms in hundreds of branches of the retail chain across the United States.

appointmenting Pickering to the 5th
Circuit Court of Appeals

appointmenting Pickering to the 5th
Circuit Court of Appeals 01/18/2004 12:22 AM
Report: Bush Installs Pickering on Appeals Court .. recess appointment .. reporting

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(Gilmore vs. Ashcroft) 9th Circuit to
DOJ: No Secret Justice

(Gilmore vs. Ashcroft) 9th Circuit to
DOJ: No Secret Justice 09/13/2004 08:10 PM
Mark Frauenfelder: Score one for John Gilmore, who is suing the Justice Department because it has secret laws requiring people to show ID when flying on a commercial domestic plane. Ashcroft tried to file a secret brief to keep the secret law a secret, but the court said no secrets allowed.

Bill sez: "The 9th Circuit US Court of Appeals rejected a Department of Justice attempt to file a secret brief in Gilmore vs. Ashcroft, a case that involves secret law.

"In a one page order, the Court denied DOJ's motion asking the Court's permission to file their arguments in secret, allowing only the judges to read their full brief. A DOJ motion to suspend the briefing schedule was similarly denied." Link (Here are previous BB posts on the subject)

The D.C. Circuit gave the RIAA bad news
today

The D.C. Circuit gave the RIAA bad news
today 12/20/2003 05:02 AM
decision .. opinion, .. opinion

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Circuit City Gets Online Makeover
(AdWeek.com)

Circuit City Gets Online Makeover
(AdWeek.com) 09/13/2004 11:45 PM
AdWeek.com - If you build it, or in the case of Circuit City's Web site, re-build it, they won't necessarily come. So, to ensure visits to the new CircuitCity.com, the electronics retailer yesterday started rolling out a multimedia push that promotes a "Plasma Screen TV Makeover" online contest that carries a grand prize of five flat-screen TVs and home-theater equipment worth $20,000.
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