Kilby's work was named an IEEE Milestone in 2009.

Produced at Fairchild Semiconductor, it was made of silicon, whereas Kilby's chip was made of germanium.

Brandon was a much less activist governor than the energetic Kilby ( he did little for education ), but did continue Kilby's ambitious program of road construction and improvement of Mobile's dock facilities, funding the latter with a $ 10 million bond issue.

Kilby's extreme heroism and gallantry during this attack was noted and he was awarded a posthumous Victoria Cross on 30 March 1916.

Kilby's heroism was acknowledged by the German defenders who erected a memorial cross at the location of his death.

In 2012, Kilby's Victoria Cross, along with another awarded to Private Sidney Godley, the very first VC recipient of World War I, was sold at a London auction for £ 276, 000 each.

His chip solved many practical problems that Kilby's had not.

Interview covers Kilby's entire career, including his education, work experiences at Centralab, where he worked with Alfred Khouri and Robert Wolff, and Texas Instruments ( TI ) under Willis Adcock.

These generally relied on Jack Kilby's invention of the integrated circuit ( or microchip ), starting around 1965.

`` It was Brenner's idea '', Jess mumbled, dabbing at his nose.

He had no idea which was up and which was down.

Beyond the two basic tasks mentioned above, no attention was paid by statesman or scholar to an idea of state responsibility, either internally or externally.

Despite the clarity of his presentation, his idea was not of Einsteinian calibre.

To get an idea of the embarrassment and chagrin that was heaped upon Wright and Olgivanna, we should bear in mind that the raids were sometimes led by Miriam in person.

Apparently still sensitive about the idea with which General Gates had approached him at Saratoga, namely, that George Washington be replaced, Morgan was vehement in his support of the commander-in-chief during the campaign around Philadelphia.

Their policy ran counter to the traditional idea that a good fighter was usually a libertine, and that in sex affairs `` God-given passion '' was a proof of manliness.

Yet, the idea imbedded in each was identical: to surround the unknown with mystery and to isolate that class which had been given special dominion over the secrets of God.

The idea was not even suggested because political expediency prevailed over wisdom.

He had no idea where he was.

He realized that he had no idea where the telephone was.

Although Mr. Brown was not himself its inventor ( it was a French idea ), it is typical that his intuition first conceived the importance of mass producing this basic tool for general use.

While Mr. Blatz was putting up the pegboards and starting the workbench, Mr. Crombie told him of this idea about paneling the whole end of the cellar.

Instructions to relax, i.e., to be `` spontaneous '', and react immediately to whatever impulse they might have, was not sufficiently reassuring until some idea of the possibilities of normal reactions had been given.

By this time Churchill was not so cordial toward moving Poland westward as he had been at Teheran, where he and Eden had both heartily approved the idea.

The dated poems also give us an idea of the degree to which Hardy drew upon past productions for his various volumes, and therefore probably are an indication of the amount of poetry he was writing at the time.

For weeks he had been saying that Hudson's idea of sailing through to Java was absurd.

And it was Lucy Upton who first started the idea of a regular course in Music at Spelman College.

That, incidentally, might give you some idea of what Felix was like.

Well, it hadn't been what it seemed, he'd had no idea the girl was in there.

This was senseless -- he had no idea what to look for.

`` I'll get my references in order '', Needham said, and though he spoke with a smile, Casey somehow got the idea that he was not particularly amused.

But Keys worries that the Metrecal drinker will never make either the psychological or physiological adjustment to the idea of eating smaller portions of food.

My one idea when going into bat was to make runs for Australia.

These operations are compounding ( or the addition of one idea onto another, such as a horn on a horse to create a unicorn ); transposing ( or the substitution of one part of a thing with the part from another, such as with the body of a man upon a horse to make a centaur ); augmenting ( as with the case of a giant, whose size has been augmented ); and diminishing ( as with Lilliputians, whose size has been diminished ).

Howard Taubman in his New York Times review wrote that Laurents ' " book lacks the fantasy that would make the idea work, and his staging has not improved matters.

To make a Turing machine that speaks Chinese, Searle gets in a room stocked with algorithms programmed to respond to Chinese questions, i. e., Turing machines, programmed to correctly answer in Chinese questions asked in Chinese, and he finds he's able to process the inputs to outputs perfectly without having any understanding of Chinese, nor having any idea what the questions and answers could possibly mean.

For one thing, if verbal reports are treated as observations, akin to observations in other branches of science, then the possibility arises that they may contain errors — but it is difficult to make sense of the idea that subjects could be wrong about their own experiences, and even more difficult to see how such an error could be detected.

He also rejected the idea of hiring an inker or letterer, comparing it to a golfer hiring a man to make his putts.

But the result was not pre-planned, as Beaux ’ s sister later explained, " Please make no mystery about it — it was only an idea to put the black kitten on her cousin's shoulder.

Online response is a good idea but one of the functions of census is to make sure everyone is counted accurately.

The idea that a few people have about the gene being the target of selection is completely impractical ; a gene is never visible to natural selection, and in the genotype, it is always in the context with other genes, and the interaction with those other genes make a particular gene either more favorable or less favorable.

After 1. 5 years of work, it was decided that it didn't really work as a whole, so production on the TV special was stopped ( with the exception of some very short clips, no material from it has ever been seen by the public ), But about one year after the rejection, Ivo Caprino's son, Remo Caprino, got the idea to make the sketches into a full-length film.

A typical tech usage from the Linux Bible, 2005 characterizes the Unix software development philosophy as " one that can make your life a lot simpler once you grok the idea ".

", and then came up with the idea that returning a dead Norwegian Blue parrot to a pet shop might make for a more interesting subject than returning a toaster.

The idea was to use Latin vocabulary, since this was widely known, but simplify the grammar as much as possible and remove all irregular and anomalous forms to make it easier to learn.

Holm's discussion of the Ringu remakes presents this idea by stating, " It is, instead, to note that the Ring films make use of an untheorized notion of Japan ... that seek to directly represent the country.

The idea, sometimes regulated by law, is to use these portraits to make the public aware of the symbolic connection to the government, a practice that dates back to medieval times.

It also has a hacker ethic, based on the idea that writing software and sharing the result on a voluntary basis is a good idea, and that information should be free, but that it's not up to the hacker to make it free by breaking into private computer systems.

Fantasy author Philip Pullman echoes this idea in the fantasy series His Dark Materials, in which the characters finally come to the conclusion that people should make life better on Earth rather than wait for heaven ( this idea is known as the Republic of Heaven ).

A user made an idea, for ties smelling of fish, and then got people to make an account and vote for it, with a comment mentioning the name of a country.

In an example taken from his high school experience, Miller recalls that one of his classmates ... struck upon the brilliant idea of using an old, broken mousetrap as a spitball catapult, and it worked brilliantly .... It had worked perfectly as something other than a mousetrap .... my rowdy friend had pulled a couple of parts -- probably the hold-down bar and catch -- off the trap to make it easier to conceal and more effective as a catapult ... the base, the spring, and the hammer.

Cagney himself had the idea of playing Jarrett as psychotic ; he later stated that " it was essentially a cheapie one-two-three-four kind of thing, so I suggested we make him nuts.

Rather than a conquest of the Picts, instead the idea of Pictish matrilineal succession, mentioned by Bede and apparently the only way to make sense of the list of Kings of the Picts found in the Pictish Chronicle, advanced the idea that Kenneth was a Gael, and a king of Dál Riata, who had inherited the throne of Pictland through a Pictish mother.