She was the first Director of Personnel for Intel Corporation and the first Vice President of Human Resources for Apple Inc. She currently serves as Chair of the Board and the founding trustee of the Noyce Foundation.

* Noyce Foundation website

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In his last interview, Noyce was asked what he would do if he were " emperor " of the United States.

Noyce was born on December 12, 1927, in Burlington, Iowa.

The Reverend Noyce was a Congregational clergyman and the associate superintendent of the Iowa Conference of Congregational Churches in the 1930s and 1940s.

Despite coming from a religious family, Noyce was an agnostic.

" Even at the age of five, Noyce was offended by the notion of intentionally losing at anything.

While an undergraduate, Noyce attended a physics course of the professor Grant Gale and was fascinated by the physics.

Gale got hold of two of the very first transistors ever to come out of Bell Labs and showed them off to his class and Noyce was hooked.

The relaxed culture that Noyce brought to Intel was a carry-over from his style at Fairchild Semiconductor.

Noyce was a holder of many honors and awards.

Noyce was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1980.

On December 12, 2011, Noyce was honored with a Google Doodle celebrating the 84th anniversary of his birth.

Noyce was granted 15 patents.

His interest in film was sparked by his meeting with fellow students, including Phillip Noyce and the future members of the Sydney filmmaking collective Ubu Films.

Jack St. Clair Kilby ( November 8, 1923 – June 20, 2005 ) was an American electrical engineer who took part ( along with Robert Noyce ) in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments ( TI ) in 1958.

Roche met with Bob Noyce, who expressed concern with the concept ; Frassanito recalls that " Noyce said it was an intriguing idea, and that Intel could do it, but it would be a dumb move.

At the time of Sporck's hiring, Robert Noyce was defacto head of semiconductor operations at Fairchild and Sporck was his operations manager.

Phillip Noyce directed a film, Sliver, based on the book, which was released in 1993.

Noyce was rewarded with the position of corporate vice-president and hence became the de facto head of the semiconductor division.

While Noyce was considered the natural successor to Carter, the board decided not to promote him.

Within a few months Hodgson was replaced by a management committee led by Noyce, while Sherman Fairchild looked for a new CEO other than Noyce.

Noyce and Gordon E. Moore founded Intel in 1968 when they left Fairchild Semiconductor.

Kleiner later invested his own money in Intel, a semiconductor firm founded in 1968 by fellow Fairchild founders Robert Noyce and Gordon Moore.

* July 18-The semiconductor chip company Intel is founded by Gordon E. Moore and Robert Noyce in Mountain View, California.

In 1969, after completing his Ph. D., he followed former Fairchild managers Gordon Moore, Robert Noyce, and Andrew Grove to Intel Corporation, which they had founded the previous year.

The invention of the transistor in 1947 by William B. Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain opened the door for more compact devices and led to the development of the integrated circuit in 1958 by Jack Kilby and independently in 1959 by Robert Noyce.

Robert Noyce credited Kurt Lehovec of Sprague Electric for the principle of p-n junction isolation caused by the action of a biased p-n junction ( the diode ) as a key concept behind the IC.

The 1970s and 80s are regarded by many as a ' golden age ' of Australian cinema, with many successful films, from the dark science fiction of Mad Max ( George Miller, 1979 ) to the romantic comedy of Crocodile Dundee ( Peter Faiman, 1986 ) and the emergence of such film directing auteurs as Gillian Armstrong, Phillip Noyce and Bruce Beresford.

The video was shot by famed cinematographer Christopher Doyle, who has worked on most of Wong's films and has also shot films by directors Gus Van Sant, Barry Levinson and Phillip Noyce.

* 2001: Dr. Robert Noyce Memorial Award by the Semiconductor Industry Association, with M. Hoff and S. Mazor

* The Quiet American ( 2002 ) — directed by Phillip Noyce

* Rabbit-Proof Fence ( 2002 ) — directed by Phillip Noyce

Phillip Noyce is attached to direct based on a screenplay by Robert Mark Kamen.

Schenkkan's film work includes: The Quiet American, directed by Phillip Noyce and starring Michael Caine ( Oscar nomination ).

* 1961 – Robert Noyce is granted a patent for an integrated circuit.

Notably, Robert Noyce worked on the F8 design team before he left Fairchild to start his own company, Intel.

Noyce also came up with his own idea of an integrated circuit half a year later than Kilby.

Robert Norton Noyce ( December 12, 1927 – June 3, 1990 ), nicknamed " the Mayor of Silicon Valley ", co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel Corporation in 1968.

Active all his life, Noyce enjoyed reading Hemingway, flying his own airplane, hang gliding, and scuba diving.

Noyce believed that microelectronics would continue to advance in complexity and sophistication well beyond its current state, leading to the question of what use society would make of the technology.

Ralph Brewster Noyce.

Bob had three siblings: Donald Sterling Noyce, Gaylord Brewster Noyce and Ralph Harold Noyce.

While at Grinnell College, Noyce sang, played the oboe and acted.

Arthur Rock, the chairman of Intel's board and a major investor in the company said that for Intel to succeed, Intel needed Noyce, Moore and Andrew Grove.

Noyce: the visionary, born to inspire ; Moore: the virtuoso of technology ; and Grove: the technologist turned management scientist.