Sixty years. But how much longer? In 1958 Jack St. Clair Kilby—from Great Bend, Kan.—created one of the greatest inventions, a great bend, in the history of mankind. Kilby recently had started ...

Electrical engineer Jack Kilby laid the foundations for modern information technology. In 1958 he helped to develop the world's first ever microchip. It was a simple device, but it would go on to ...

Jack Kilby, the soft-spoken engineer whose invention of the integrated circuit won the Nobel Prize and initiated the digital revolution, has died at 81. Kilby died Monday of cancer at his home in ...

Texas Instruments commemorates the 50th anniversary of the integrated circuit with the opening of Kilby Labs, honoring Nobel-prize-winning inventor of the integrated circuit, Jack Kilby.

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 ...

Yet this man, Jack St. Clair Kilby, is not familiar to most. His invention, the "integrated circuit," would launch the information age. Jack Kilby was born in 1923 to Hubert and Vina Kilby.