Comments on: Jack Kilby, inventor of the integrated circuit, dies

Kilby built the first electronic circuit in which all of the components were fabricated into a single piece of material.

[mrketchfish]

Mr. Kilby changed the world

It's mind-boggling to think of the sweeping changes the invention of the integrated circuit precipitated. Why Jack Kilby's name isn't on the tip of every school child's tongue is beyond me.

My Dad was the Purchasing Agent and later Plant Manager for a small defense sub-contractor and used to talk about how quickly technology advanced since IC's were invented and it's from him I first heard Mr. Kilby's name, spoken with the reverence that's reserved for a true genius, like Edison, Marconi, DaVinci, Einstein, etc.

Space travel, accurate missile guidance systems, computers that don't take up multiple city blocks, modern cars, aircraft, communications devices, the watch on your wrist, the thermostat on your home heating system, the pacemaker that keeps a heart patient alive, and oh, so many more things we take for granted today would simply not be possible without the integrated circuit.

Rest in peace Jack Kilby.

[mrketchfish]

Mr. Kilby changed the world

It's mind-boggling to think of the sweeping changes the invention of the integrated circuit precipitated. Why Jack Kilby's name isn't on the tip of every school child's tongue is beyond me.

My Dad was the Purchasing Agent and later Plant Manager for a small defense sub-contractor and used to talk about how quickly technology advanced since IC's were invented and it's from him I first heard Mr. Kilby's name, spoken with the reverence that's reserved for a true genius, like Edison, Marconi, DaVinci, Einstein, etc.

Space travel, accurate missile guidance systems, computers that don't take up multiple city blocks, modern cars, aircraft, communications devices, the watch on your wrist, the thermostat on your home heating system, the pacemaker that keeps a heart patient alive, and oh, so many more things we take for granted today would simply not be possible without the integrated circuit.

Rest in peace Jack Kilby.

[Richie]

Importance

Mr. Kilby will be forgotten soon but his foresight was amazing. All people who have foresight should take a page from his book "Not sll things have been Invented yet in electronics" Keep trying and get something with airogel for 3D TV. I can't afford it.

[Richie]

Importance

Mr. Kilby will be forgotten soon but his foresight was amazing. All people who have foresight should take a page from his book "Not sll things have been Invented yet in electronics" Keep trying and get something with airogel for 3D TV. I can't afford it.

[tonydr]

Kilby deserves the praise, but was not alone,

Taking nothing away from him, Kilby's innovation was extraordinary and he deserved the acclaim he receives at his passing. However, Robert Noyce at Fairchild electronics actually received the first patent for the IC.

But the majority of the acclaim should go to Shockley, Bardeen and Brattain for the creation of the solid state transistor at Bell Labs in 1947, without which the IC would not have been possible, and is considered by many to be the greatest invention of the 20th century.

[tonydr]

Kilby deserves the praise, but was not alone,

Taking nothing away from him, Kilby's innovation was extraordinary and he deserved the acclaim he receives at his passing. However, Robert Noyce at Fairchild electronics actually received the first patent for the IC.

But the majority of the acclaim should go to Shockley, Bardeen and Brattain for the creation of the solid state transistor at Bell Labs in 1947, without which the IC would not have been possible, and is considered by many to be the greatest invention of the 20th century.