Robert Noyce's 84th Birthday

[Seth Astra]

Is today, according to the front page of Google. For those not familiar with this man, here's a wikipedia article.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Noyce

For those to lazy to click the link, he invented the microchip. In other words, without what he did we would not have computers or video games or, well, a whole lot of stuff. In short, his invention would come to change the world.

[Randomness]

Damn. Co-inventor of the integrated circuit and co-founder of Intel.

This man should have had a Nobel Prize. Seriously. The integrated circuit is arguably the single most significant invention of the last century.