Jack Kilby, 1923-2005
Jun. 22nd, 2005 05:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
libertangoJack Kilby, one of the co-inventors of the microchip, is dead.
If you can read this, you can thank Jack (unless you're using a terminal to Big Iron, and even then...).
I recommend T.R. Reid's The Chip for more on Jack, Bob Noyce, and the creation of the microprocessor.
If you can read this, you can thank Jack (unless you're using a terminal to Big Iron, and even then...).
I recommend T.R. Reid's The Chip for more on Jack, Bob Noyce, and the creation of the microprocessor.
