Jack Kilby Dies at 81

[Caged Anger]

http://www.pcworld.com/resource/article/0,aid,121543,pg,1,RSS,RSS,00.asp

Here's to the guy that made computers possible

[Mad Fox]

Least he made a good life out of it

[SASQUATCH]

Microchip. . .

Kilby went on to develop the first industrial, commercial, and military applications for his integrated circuits---including the first pocket calculator (the "Pocketronic") and computer that used them. By the mid-1970s, the computing industry was inconceivable without the microchip, which forms the basis of modern microelectronics: without it, no personal computer, fax machine, cellular phone, satellite television, or indeed any other computer or mass communication system as we know it would exist.