Morris Tanenbaum, inventor of the silicon transistor, has died
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Morris Tanenbaum, inventor of the silicon transistor, has died
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Re: Morris Tanenbaum, inventor of the silicon transistor, has died
#2Morris Tanenbaum (American, physical chemist / transistor researcher) [1], not to be confused with Andrew Tanenbaum (American-Dutch, CS professor who was responsible for MINIX) [2]. Both had great significance in what we call "computers" today, in their respective fields.
Re: Morris Tanenbaum, inventor of the silicon transistor, has died
#3Morris Tanenbaum (American, physical chemist / transistor researcher) [1], not to be confused with Andrew Tanenbaum (American-Dutch, CS professor who was responsible for MINIX) [2]. Both had great significance in what we call "computers" today, in their respective fields. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Tanenbaum [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum
Exactly. and deserves a black bar.
Can we please have a black bar for respect and recognising his great contributions?
Re: Morris Tanenbaum, inventor of the silicon transistor, has died
#4Morris Tanenbaum (American, physical chemist / transistor researcher) [1], not to be confused with Andrew Tanenbaum (American-Dutch, CS professor who was responsible for MINIX) [2]. Both had great significance in what we call "computers" today, in their respective fields. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Tanenbaum [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_S._Tanenbaum
Exactly. and deserves a black bar. Can we please have a black bar for respect and recognising his great contributions?
Black bar?
Re: Morris Tanenbaum, inventor of the silicon transistor, has died
#5Re: Morris Tanenbaum, inventor of the silicon transistor, has died
#6It's incredibly humbling to be reminded how young this field of our is: this site and everything its presence implies (about the Internet, global communication, computers) would not exist were it not for the work of a very-recently-deceased engineer.
Very few other fields (aerospace and modern pharmacology, among them) can say the same thing.
Re: Morris Tanenbaum, inventor of the silicon transistor, has died
#7I'm embarrassed to admit that this is the first time I hear of him.
Re: Morris Tanenbaum, inventor of the silicon transistor, has died
#8I'm embarrassed to admit that this is the first time I hear of him.
You are one of the lucky 10,000 today.
Re: Morris Tanenbaum, inventor of the silicon transistor, has died
#9Re: Morris Tanenbaum, inventor of the silicon transistor, has died
#10It's incredibly humbling to be reminded how young this field of our is: this site and everything its presence implies (about the Internet, global communication, computers) would not exist were it not for the work of a very-recently-deceased engineer. Very few other fields (aerospace and modern pharmacology, among them) can say the same thing.
It is interesting to think about about alternative history here: If microchip technology had never been invented for some reason, what would we have developed instead? What is the next best computing technology?