September 12th marks the arrival of one of the greatest inventions of all time, and it happened 65 years ago at Dallas-based Texas Instruments. TI employee Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit ...

A man in the same league with Thomas Edison, the Wright Brothers and Alexander Graham Bell was born in Jefferson City. Yet this man, Jack St. Clair Kilby, is not familiar to most. His invention, the ...

Dallas, TX (WHTM) The integrated circuit, or microchip, is now an essential part of our lives, and a multi-billion dollar industry. They’re in anything and everything electronic, and they’re why the ...

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 Internet, has died ...

Kilby solved it with his breakthrough integrated circuit, otherwise known as the microchip. His invention launched the modern electronics era and reshaped human technology. Kilby’s interest in the ...

The honor roll of history is full of quiet geniuses whose miraculous inventions are scorned at first sight. JACK KILBY, who died in Dallas last week at the age of 81, was no exception. His is hardly a ...

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 tons, and used more ...

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 ...

DALLAS -- Nobel laureate Jack Kilby, whose 1958 invention of the integrated circuit ushered an the modern electronics age and made possible the microprocessor, has died after a battle with cancer.

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 ...

Austin, Texas — Jack St. Clair Kilby, who died June 20 at age 81 in Dallas of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, was remembered last week by acquaintances as an engineer who brought a powerful intelligence and ...