Title
Dill, Frederick (Rick) oral history
Catalog Number
102740120
Type
Moving image
Description
Born and raised during the Depression in rural Pennsylvania, Frederick (Rick) H. Dill graduated with a Ph.D. in physics from Carnegie Mellon University. During a 1954 summer internship at IBM Ploughkeepsie he built a semiconductor ring counter, one of the first documented operating integrated circuits. He joined the IBM Research Division in 1958 and served the company until Hitachi Global Storage Technologies acquired the disk drive operation in 2002. He remained with Hitachi for 5 years before retiring. During his career, Dr. Dill performed pioneering research in semiconductor lasers, high-speed germanium ICs, materials for photolithography, video DRAMs, and high-capacity disk drive heads. He holds more than 30 patents. An IEEE Life Fellow, Dr. Dill has served on the IEEE Board of Directors, as president of the IEEE Electron Devices Society, and was one of the early presidents of IBM's Academy of Technology.
Date
2015-06-11
Participants
Dennis, Eric, Videographer
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Dill, Frederick, Interviewee
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Laws, David, Interviewer
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Publisher
Computer History Museum
Place of Publication
Mountain View, California
Duration
02:48:58
Format
MOV
Copyright Holder
Computer History Museum
Category
Oral history
Subject
semiconductor; integrated circuit; Laser; silicon; Germanium; photolithography; DRAM; disk drive; Thin film; light-emitting diodes; SLT; IBM; Hitachi; Bell Labs; IEEE; Signal Corps Lab; RCA Labs; Cocke, John; Caswell, Holly; Allen, Fran; Critchlow, Dale; Dennard, Robert; Logue, Joseph; Konnerth, Karl; Rutz, Dick
Collection Title
Oral history collection
Credit
Computer History Museum