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COMPUTER PEOPLE - J

NameBiography
Jack Kilby
Formal name:Jack St. Clair Kilby
Date of birth:November 8, 1923
Jefferson City, Missouri, USA
Contributions:
  1. Conceived and built the first electronic circuit.
  2. Developed and demonstrated a microchip on September 12, 1958.
  3. Co-invented the hand-held calculator and thermal printer.
Company:Texas Instruments
Other:
  • Awarded the National Medal of Science in 1970.
  • Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 1982.
  • Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000.
Related people:Robert Noyce
Jarkko Oikarinen
Date of birth:Unknown date of birth.
Contributions:
  1. Developed IRC in August 1988.
Jay Miner
Formal name:Jay Glenn Miner
Date of birth:May 31, 1932
Prescott, Arizona, USA
Date of death:June 20, 1994
Mountain View, California, USA
Contributions:
  1. Co-founded Amiga with David Morse.
Company:Amiga
Related people:David Morse
Jerry Sanders 
Date of birth:Unknown date of birth.
Contributions:
  1. Help establish AMD May 1, 1969
Company:AMD
Related people:Eugene Kleiner, Gordon Moore, Jerry Sanders, Robert Noyce
Jobs, StevePlease see Steve Jobs on our Computer People - S page.
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