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Remembering Andy S. Grove
(1936-2016)
Andrew S. Grove was a seminal figure in the history of the semiconductor industry, and in the story of high-technology industry in Silicon Valley. He passed away on March 20th, 2016. It was at Intel that Andy Grove made his best known contributions. With Moore as Intel's technological strategist, and Noyce its consummate ambassador and public face, Grove quickly became the firm's inside, operational force. If it fell to Moore to determine what to make, and to Noyce to convince the world of its worth, it became Grove's job to actually make it. As Intel achieved successes - first in the microchip memory market, particularly with DRAM, and then in the commercial microprocessor business - Grove rose from VP and Director of Operations for Intel to its Executive Vice President. Gordon Moore took over as Intel's CEO from the mid 1970s to the mid 1980s, working extremely closely with Andy Grove as the company's COO.
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In His Own Words: John Blankenbaker
John V. Blankenbaker, the inventor of the Kenbak, has a long career in computing, dating back to the 1950s. His association with the Museum dates back to the early 1980s when the Kenbak was named "The First PC" in the Computer Museum's Earliest PC contest in 1986.
Watch Jean Bartik and the ENIAC Women
ENIAC was built between 1943 and 1945 to calculate complex wartime ballistics tables for the US Army. It was the first electronic, programmable computer. Jean Bartik was one of the original six programmers—all women. Learn more about the ENIAC from this CHM Favorite.
Oral History of Elizabeth “Jake” Feinler
Elizabeth "Jake" Feinler headed the Network Information Center (NIC) at SRI for nearly 25 years. When Feinler left to head another NIC at NASA in the early 1990s, the original NIC had become the nerve center of the ballooning Internet. Read her remarkable story in this oral history.