At the time when Jack Kilby’s experiments resulted in the first integrated circuit that was about half the size of a paper clip, computers were about 50 feet long, weighed eight ...

It’s the third Saturday of the month. Jack Kilby arrives early to the McCalla School, where he works during the week as a gallery preparator in the University Collections. With him, he brings a crate ...

Jack Kilby began his career as a rather undistinguished scientist. He couldn't get into MIT, and he got consistently average grades as an undergraduate at the University of Illinois. But grades don't ...

Jack Kilby, an inventor at Texas Instruments Inc. who developed the first integrated circuit in 1958, yesterday was jointly awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in physics along with two other ...

Nobel laureate Jack Kilby, whose invention of the integrated circuit opened the way for today’s computers, video games, DVD players, and cell phones, died Monday of cancer. He was 81. In 1958, his ...

DALLAS Microchip pioneer Jack Kilby, who won the 2000 Nobel Prize for co-inventing the integrated circuits that ushered in the digital age of personal computers, cell phones and the ...