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Integrated Circuit Inventor Jack Kilby Dead at 81

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the thanks-for-the-ideas dept.

geekotourist writes " Jack Kilby , inventor of the integrated circuit, one winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physics (Robert Noyce died in 1990), died June 20th after a brief battle with cancer. In 1958 he invented the foundation for a trillion dollar industry as a substitute for going on vacation." Update: 06/22 02:03 GMT by T : Kilby was 81, not 91 as the headline originally indicated.

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  1. You will be remembered... by KennyP · · Score: 4, Funny

    I now know who to blame my "misspent youth" on for living in the basement in the late '70's with my OSI C1P computer.

    Thanks for everything!!!

    Visualize Whirled P.'s

  2. All the proof I need. by MyLongNickName · · Score: 2, Funny

    Workers don't need vacation! Now get back to work, you lazy oafs. I expect to see some more ground breaking inventions before I get back from the 19th hole.

    Sincerely,
    Your friendly neighborhood PHB

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  3. I gotta say it. by Kaisum · · Score: 4, Funny

    So long and thanks for all the chips.

  4. Re:Big dreams turn into nightmares by maharvey · · Score: 3, Funny

    He probably thought of it as a way to increase efficiency and ultimately reduce our workload. I suspect he had no such grandiose visions. A man who is skilled in and passionate about his work will change his world without meaning to, though rarely will the ripples be so large. Probably he was seriously geeking out over the coolness of it, wondering how to sell it to his new pointy-haired boss and avoid getting assigned to a crap job, yet mindful that this STILL wouldn't impress any chicks...