A reporter discusses the contributions Jack Kilby, inventor of the microchip, made to communication. Kilby died Monday at age 81. Not so long ago, computers filled entire rooms, big rooms. But ...

June 24, 2005 Jack Kilby, the man who invented the Integrated Circuit – also known as the microchip – died on Monday at age 81. It’s not every day that a man of Kilby’s importance passes away.

** FILE ** Jack Kilby, Nobel Prize winner and inventor of the integrated circuit, speaks to reporters at the Beckman Institute in Urbana, Ill., in this April 18, 2001 file photo.

Jack Kilby, the soft-spoken, 6-foot-6 engineer whose invention of the integrated circuit won him the Nobel Prize and launched the digital revolution, died Monday. He was 81. Kilby died of cancer ...

Jack Kilby, whose work on integrated circuits in the 1950s ushered in the digital era, died Monday after a battle with cancer. He was 81. In the summer of 1958, while working at Texas Instruments ...

DALLAS — Jack St. Clair Kilby died of cancer Monday at his home in Dallas almost 50 years after his idea for what is commonly known as the microchip revolutionized the way the world computes ...

Jack Kilby, Inventor Of The Integrated Circuit. July 21, 2005. In my opinion, there are only a handful of people whose works have truly transformed the world and the way we live in it," said Texas ...

Jack St. Clair Kilby, a retired engineer with Texas Instruments who invented the integrated circuit (IC) passed away Monday in Dallas following a brief battle with cancer. He was 81. Kilby invented ...

The Nobel laureate and gentle giant Jack Kilby, who has died of cancer aged 81, was acknowledged as the inventor of the microchip. He had just joined Texas Instruments in 1958 when he came up with ...

Jack Kilby, whose work on integrated circuits in the 1950s ushered in the digital era, died Monday after a battle with cancer. He was 81. In the summer of 1958, while working at Texas Instruments ...

Jack S. Kilby, an electrical engineer whose invention of the integrated circuit gave rise to the information age and heralded an explosion of consumer electronics products in the last 50 years ...