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curious2
2016 Mar 24, 4:07pm
Diagnosed in 1995 with prostate cancer -- which later went into remission -- and in 2000 with Parkinson's disease, Grove contributed tens of millions of dollars to medical research and urged speedier regulatory approval of vitally needed therapies."
I have seen many reports of encouraging research into Parkinson's disease, and I hope that research will continue even now that he's no longer personally available to contribute. The combination of Obamneycare+sequester has really decimated research into cures, diverting infinite resources into daily revenue models (the used car salesmen of the field). Sadly, even Andy Grove, with all his brilliance and all his millions, couldn't buy himself more time, nor even steady hands. RIP.
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Your ability to support your family, with an income higher than flooring and carpet laying, results directly from his work. "Grove's team developed the foundation of the metal oxide semiconductor chip that created Silicon Valley. "At Intel, Andy not only got MOS to work but turned it into high volume production" said Laws. "And that's the story of Silicon Valley. Without MOS, we certainly wouldn't be at a billion transistors on a chip," he said."
Dan8267
2016 Mar 24, 8:59pm
Engineers are awesome. They do more to make the world a better place than all other people could even dream of doing.
I have seen many reports of encouraging research into Parkinson's disease
It still seems to me that this is a bit on the back-burner and not the "hippest" field to research in, not clear why. I believe that many of the chronic neurodegenrative diseases will eventually be cross-linked with chronic (auto)immune diseases and research will centralize more and more around chronic bacterial infections. I believe that a chronic extreme imbalance of bacteria population in the gut or other systems will eventually tip the body into disease-expressing symptomatic state for many indications. Viruses may play a part too, but far lesser as the body usually clears out or effectively controls viruses once the acute diseases has been defeated. Bacteria however will always shift and regroup, form biofilm colonies and move through various organs and cause the immune system to react without effectively eliminating them. Governments around the world are just starting to recognize lyme disease (bacteria) and the microbiome research is in its infancy. Lots of work to do.
Engineers are awesome
Agreed. It's a damn shame that most (the overwhelming majority) are woefully incompetent entrepreneurs and investors.
Engineers are awesome
Agreed. It's a damn shame that most (the overwhelming majority) are woefully incompetent entrepreneurs and investors.
Agreed but some of it though is also the fault of the industry. Engineers are driven into becoming CEOs of useless entertainment apps or wanna-be investors because it is better for their career path. I would love to work in the medical field but boy medical computer science is still in its infancy and makes for maybe 1% of the jobs. And often employees are paid shitty and not treated like the "rockstardom" they get a FaceTwit and Twatter. The medical profession should really make a big push towards firmly integrating programming in all of their departments.
Dan8267
2016 Mar 25, 12:40pm
Agreed. It's a damn shame that most (the overwhelming majority) are woefully incompetent entrepreneurs and investors.
Unfortunately, that's true as well.
"Born Andras Grof in Budapest, Hungary, on Sept. 2, 1936 -- the only child in a Jewish family of decidedly modest means -- he endured the repressive Nazis and subsequent Soviet occupations of that country and sometimes had to conceal his ancestry to avoid persecution.
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Grove fled to Austria at the age of 20 and, with $20 in his pocket, emigrated to the United States, where he changed his name from Grof to Grove, moved in with relatives and was accepted at City College of New York. In 1958, he married Eva Kastan, another Hungarian refugee he met at a summer resort where they both worked and with whom he later had two daughters.
Finishing City College in 1960 at the top of his class with a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering, he entered graduate school at UC Berkeley and arranged for his parents to leave Hungary and join him in California. After receiving a doctorate degree in chemical engineering in 1963, Grove landed a job with Silicon Valley chip pioneer Fairchild Semiconductor, where he became assistant director of research and development in 1967.
But his career really took off the next year when he left Fairchild to become director of operations at Intel, which had been co-founded that year by two other Fairchild expatriates, Gordon Moore and Bob Noyce.
David Laws, the semiconductor curator at the Computer History Museum, worked at Fairchild where Grove's team developed the foundation of the metal oxide semiconductor chip that created Silicon Valley.
"At Intel, Andy not only got MOS to work but turned it into high volume production" said Laws. "And that's the story of Silicon Valley. Without MOS, we certainly wouldn't be at a billion transistors on a chip," he said.
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[Grove] became Intel's president in 1979, CEO in 1987 and chairman in 1997.
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"Andy relentlessly upped the pace of Intel," Paul Saffo, Silicon Valley forecaster, said Monday. "He's the guy who built it into the titan of industry it became. He did it by a unique mix of vision, and velocity."
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Widely regarded as a brilliant problem solver, Grove became close with Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who viewed the Intel CEO as a mentor and one of his heroes. But in "Only the Paranoid Survive," a book Grove published in 1996, he confessed to obsessively fretting about his business.
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Diagnosed in 1995 with prostate cancer -- which later went into remission -- and in 2000 with Parkinson's disease, Grove contributed tens of millions of dollars to medical research and urged speedier regulatory approval of vitally needed therapies."