Goodbye, Jack!
Jack Kilby died yesterday after briefly being ill with cancer. http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/kilbyctr/jackstclair.shtml
He was 81.
Well, as one of the TI's (Texas Instruments) 75th Anniversary posters goes: 'You probably don't know Jack, but you know his work'. He invented Integrated Circuit (IC) or chips. Surely you have seen or known chips or ICs. They are omnipresent -- almost every electronic gadget you come across has at least one of them. The car you drive probably has a dozen of them. The cell phone you use has at least one. Your iPod has it. Your TV has hundreds of them. Your electronic wristwatch depends on it. You use these amazing piece of electronic without even knowing it.
If you are curious what an IC is and how it is constructed, you can read about it here:http://www.appliedmaterials.com/HTMAC/ or http://research.cs.tamu.edu/eda/people/sagar/how-to-make-a-chip.pdf
Jack invented IC when he was a new employee at TI and didn't have enough vacation. He definitely didn't realize the tremendous impact he was going to make in the world. Isn't that true with any great research. Every great thing is started small.
My work is on testing ICs to ensure they work as required when they are put in system. In a sense, if it were not for Jack, I probably wouldn't be doing what I am doing. So, thanks to Jack, we have so many wonderful electronic things to help us, to entertain us, to amuse us.
Goodbye, Jack and thanks for everything. The world owes you a lot for what you have accomplished.
He was 81.
Well, as one of the TI's (Texas Instruments) 75th Anniversary posters goes: 'You probably don't know Jack, but you know his work'. He invented Integrated Circuit (IC) or chips. Surely you have seen or known chips or ICs. They are omnipresent -- almost every electronic gadget you come across has at least one of them. The car you drive probably has a dozen of them. The cell phone you use has at least one. Your iPod has it. Your TV has hundreds of them. Your electronic wristwatch depends on it. You use these amazing piece of electronic without even knowing it.
If you are curious what an IC is and how it is constructed, you can read about it here:http://www.appliedmaterials.com/HTMAC/ or http://research.cs.tamu.edu/eda/people/sagar/how-to-make-a-chip.pdf
Jack invented IC when he was a new employee at TI and didn't have enough vacation. He definitely didn't realize the tremendous impact he was going to make in the world. Isn't that true with any great research. Every great thing is started small.
My work is on testing ICs to ensure they work as required when they are put in system. In a sense, if it were not for Jack, I probably wouldn't be doing what I am doing. So, thanks to Jack, we have so many wonderful electronic things to help us, to entertain us, to amuse us.
Goodbye, Jack and thanks for everything. The world owes you a lot for what you have accomplished.
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