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I'm not big on recycling bits but a story I've just seen on Slashdot is an
exception to the rule. Jack St. Clair Kilby, the man who invented the
integrated circuit, passed away on June 20th. There aren't many people who
can boast of starting a (multi) trillion dollar industry and it all started
when he didn't take a vacation
http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/kilbyctr/vacation.shtml

Brett Roberts
Microsoft NZ

>...and it all started
>when he didn't take a vacation
>http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/kilbyctr/vacation.shtml

Great story! I wonder whether the media will pick it up.

Brett Roberts wrote:
> I'm not big on recycling bits but a story I've just seen on Slashdot is an
> exception to the rule. Jack St. Clair Kilby, the man who invented the
> integrated circuit, passed away on June 20th. There aren't many people who
> can boast of starting a (multi) trillion dollar industry and it all started
> when he didn't take a vacation
> http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/kilbyctr/vacation.shtml
>
> Brett Roberts
> Microsoft NZ
>
>

Quick note that Robert Noyce (who started Intel with Gordon Moore) also
invented the integrated circuit - at roughly the same time that Jack
Kilby did.