In 1958, Texas Instruments engineer Jack Kilby created the first integrated circuit, an invention that would go on to define modern technology. It became the ancestor of today's microchips, which ...

June 24, 2005 — -- Jack Kilby was not a household name, but his work is a fixture in the American household. He was the Nobel Prize-winning inventor of the computer chip. Kilby died Monday at ...

An integrated circuit that Texas Instruments' Jack Kilby used in 1958 to demonstrate his invention of the new technology is expected to sell for as much as $2 million at auction.

Jack St. Clair Kilby was born in Jefferson City, Mo., on Nov. 8, 1923, and grew up in Great Bend, Kan. His father ran a small power company with customers scattered across rural western Kansas.

The world’s first microchip is set to sell for $600,000 ahead of the 60th anniversary of its invention. Electrical engineer Jack Kilby built the cutting edge integrated circuit in 1958 along ...

Host Bob Edwards talks with commentator T.R. Reid about Jack Kilby, one of the inventors of the microchip. Kilby may not be as famous as Bill Gates, but he is enjoying a wave of notoriety in his ...

Jack Kilby's career (see remembrance, page 1) spoke volumes about the electronics industry and the country in general. Gordon Moore spoke succinctly about it: “Jack Kilby was always an engineer's ...

Changing the World, the Jack Kilby Way By Ben Worthen Sept. 12, 2008 12:00 am ET Resize ...

Jack Kilby, the inventor of the integrated circuit, has died at the age of 81. Kilby built the first IC while working at Texas Instruments in 1958, and later helped to develop the first handheld ...

It took more than 40 years for Jack Kilby Jack Kilby to win the Nobel Prize, for his 1958 invention of the integrated circuit. His invention helped form the foundation of what was last year a $213 ...

Jack Kilby, whose work in the late 1950s on the integrated circuit paved the way for the modern computing era, died Monday in Dallas at the age of 81 after a brief struggle against cancer, Texas ...