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Integrated Circuit Inventor Jack Kilby Dead at 81
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.
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.
Ooo man the floppy drive is broken. No wait. The computer is just upside down.
I'm not going to die.
Doesn't it make you feel good to know that our freedoms are protected by politicans, lawyers and journalists.
...Slashdot "editor" Timmy Boi got his wanker stuck in his fly. News at 11.
With the irrisponsible way Taco runs it, slashdotting random people, we could only be so lucky.
My plan is to have my essence embedded on silicon and live on forever as a Borg. You?
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
Explain these then.
I think the proper phrasing of that last bit would be, "Ah, yes, but can it run Linux?" followed by something like "Wait... Damn!"
Well, then this /. community certainly includes you.
Nobody is saying otherwise.
No no no, it was stolen from the guts of a crashed timeship that came from the 29th century!
Don't blame your sword if you fall on it.
Aren't you supposed to get modded up when you're karma whoring?
You must be a troll or a racist, for you certainly act like one.