From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: beebe@math.utah.edu (Nelson H. F. Beebe)
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2016 07:38:31 -0600
Subject: [TUHS] sort of unrelated but
In-Reply-To: <20160322011111.GH1619@mcvoy.com>
Message-ID: <CMM.0.95.0.1458653911.beebe@gamma.math.utah.edu>

Larry McVoy <lm at 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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