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 ...

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 ...