Jack Kilby

Ten years later, Jack Kilby at Texas Instruments realized the potential for miniaturization if multiple transistors could be built on a single piece of silicon.

Jack Kilby's invention of the integrated circuit 46 years ago brought the world closer together.

Fifteen years ago, I was invited to attend the Jack Kilby Awards ceremony in Dallas.

Jack Kilby wrote in his notebook the following description of the idea: "The following circuit elements could be made on a single slice: resistors, capacitor, distributed capacitor, transistor." Use a single slice of either silicon or germanium and get rid of all the wires connecting the components.

THE man who changed the world, microchip pioneer Jack Kilby, has died at the age of 81.

Eleven-year-old Robbie Wynne wears a huge smile as he races around the room on a snakeboard, a sort of skateboard, trying to escape his friend Jack Kilby who is pretty fast on a unicycle.

History records that the first chip - or integrated circuit - was invented in 1958 by American Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments.

Previous honorees include Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple Computer; Jack Kilby, inventor of the integrated circuit; Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web; and Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn, co-inventors of the Internet.