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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. Re:Interesting by technoextreme · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Ummmm.... This article was just posted five minutes ago. It is late enough on the east coast where people might be sleeping. I didn't know slashdot had that much traffic.

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  2. Re:we all gonna die. by exp(pi*sqrt(163)) · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm not going to die.

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  3. Re:His name will live on... by TummyX · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Explain these then.

  4. Re:Interesting by VoidWraith · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I think the proper phrasing of that last bit would be, "Ah, yes, but can it run Linux?" followed by something like "Wait... Damn!"

  5. Re:Pffftt... by MinutiaeMan · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    No no no, it was stolen from the guts of a crashed timeship that came from the 29th century!