Saturday, 16 November 2019

Jack Kilby : The Gentle Giant of miniaturisation.

Yesterday we had a lecture How Indians won the Silicon Valley, which was delivered by Shivanand Kanavi, former VP, TCS and a visiting Professor to NIAS. The response from the students was overwhelming. This has tempted me to post a link to some of my published articles, which include my tribute to Jack Kilby (page 27 in the link) who won the Nobel Prize for the IC and another article on Gordon Moore his Law and IC page (35 in the second link)

https://vigyanprasar.gov.in/wp-content/uploads/English35.pdf
https://vigyanprasar.gov.in/wp-content/uploads/English46.pdf

1 comment:

prof prem raj pushpakaran said...

Professor Prem raj Pushpakaran writes -- 2023 marks the birth centenary year of Jack S. Kilby!!!
https://worldarchitecture.org/profiles/gfhvm/prof-prem-raj-pushpakaran-profile-page.html

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