22 Mar
2016
22 Mar
'16
1:38 p.m.
Larry McVoy <lm(a)mcvoy.com> posted a link to an Intel press release
about the death yesterday (21-Mar-2016) of Intel co-founder Andy
Grove.
There is a decent biography of him in this book:
@Book{Tedlow:2006:AGL,
author = "Richard S. Tedlow",
title = "{Andy Grove}: the life and times of an {American}",
publisher = "Portfolio",
address = "New York, NY, USA",
pages = "xxii + 568 + 16",
year = "2006",
ISBN = "1-59184-139-9",
ISBN-13 = "978-1-59184-139-5",
LCCN = "HD9696.S44 T588 2006",
bibdate = "Mon Apr 23 08:18:31 MDT 2007",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/master.bib;
z3950.loc.gov:7090/Voyager",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
subject = "Grove, Andrew S; Chief executive officers; United
States; Biography",
}
There is more about Andy, and others behind Intel and other
companies in Silicon Valley, in this book:
@String{pub-OXFORD = "Oxford University Press"}
@String{pub-OXFORD:adr = "Walton Street, Oxford OX2 6DP, UK"}
@Book{Berlin:2005:MBM,
author = "Leslie Berlin",
title = "The man behind the microchip: {Robert Noyce} and the
invention of {Silicon Valley}",
publisher = pub-OXFORD,
address = pub-OXFORD:adr,
pages = "xi + 402",
year = "2005",
ISBN = "0-19-516343-5",
ISBN-13 = "978-0-19-516343-8",
LCCN = "TK7807.N69 B47 2005",
bibdate = "Tue Oct 11 05:00:44 MDT 2005",
bibsource = "http://www.math.utah.edu/pub/tex/bib/master.bib;
z3950.loc.gov:7090/Voyager",
acknowledgement = ack-nhfb,
keywords = "Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation; integrated
circuit (co-invented with Jack Kilby (1923--2005) of
Texas Instruments; Intel Corporation; Nobel Prize in
Physics 2000); Shockley Semiconductor Laboratories",
subject = "Noyce, Robert N.; Electronics engineers; United
States; Biography; Santa Clara Valley (Santa Clara
County, Calif.); History",
subject-dates = "1927--1990",
}
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