Robert Dennard, who grew up in rural Texas and started school in a one-room schoolhouse, says he "had a lot of time to think and read and contemplate." He recounts that he was always looking for better ways to do things, such as a faster way to chop kindling for the stoves. He later brought this penchant for improvement to IBM, where he developed the one-transistor dynamic random access memory (DRAM)—the paragon for low cost digital memory, ubiquitous in the computer industry today. At IBM, he also developed a significant theory on electronic device scaling, which has been a driving force in microelectronics. For these achievements, Dennard is the 2005 recipient of the 0000 Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1966 Dennard was a member of an IBM team doing research on a six-transistor memory cell, and he thought there must be a simpler method to build memory in this technology. His solution evolved as a single field-effect transistor that performed the reading and writing of information stored as an electric charge on a capacitor, now commonly known as a DRAM cell. This technology, patented in 1968, expended less energy and was cheaper than earlier magnetic memory. It was introduced in products on the market in the 1970s and today is the foundation for memory (RAM) in most computer components and systems. Dennard and his colleagues also conceived the scaling theory, a concept of reducing the dimensions of metal-oxide field effect transistors (MOSFETs) and their ...
Thursday, December 13, 2012
IBM Scientist: Robert Dennard
IBM Scientist: Robert Dennard Tube. Duration : 4.48 Mins.
Robert Dennard, who grew up in rural Texas and started school in a one-room schoolhouse, says he "had a lot of time to think and read and contemplate." He recounts that he was always looking for better ways to do things, such as a faster way to chop kindling for the stoves. He later brought this penchant for improvement to IBM, where he developed the one-transistor dynamic random access memory (DRAM)—the paragon for low cost digital memory, ubiquitous in the computer industry today. At IBM, he also developed a significant theory on electronic device scaling, which has been a driving force in microelectronics. For these achievements, Dennard is the 2005 recipient of the 0000 Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1966 Dennard was a member of an IBM team doing research on a six-transistor memory cell, and he thought there must be a simpler method to build memory in this technology. His solution evolved as a single field-effect transistor that performed the reading and writing of information stored as an electric charge on a capacitor, now commonly known as a DRAM cell. This technology, patented in 1968, expended less energy and was cheaper than earlier magnetic memory. It was introduced in products on the market in the 1970s and today is the foundation for memory (RAM) in most computer components and systems. Dennard and his colleagues also conceived the scaling theory, a concept of reducing the dimensions of metal-oxide field effect transistors (MOSFETs) and their ...
Robert Dennard, who grew up in rural Texas and started school in a one-room schoolhouse, says he "had a lot of time to think and read and contemplate." He recounts that he was always looking for better ways to do things, such as a faster way to chop kindling for the stoves. He later brought this penchant for improvement to IBM, where he developed the one-transistor dynamic random access memory (DRAM)—the paragon for low cost digital memory, ubiquitous in the computer industry today. At IBM, he also developed a significant theory on electronic device scaling, which has been a driving force in microelectronics. For these achievements, Dennard is the 2005 recipient of the 0000 Lemelson-MIT Lifetime Achievement Award. In 1966 Dennard was a member of an IBM team doing research on a six-transistor memory cell, and he thought there must be a simpler method to build memory in this technology. His solution evolved as a single field-effect transistor that performed the reading and writing of information stored as an electric charge on a capacitor, now commonly known as a DRAM cell. This technology, patented in 1968, expended less energy and was cheaper than earlier magnetic memory. It was introduced in products on the market in the 1970s and today is the foundation for memory (RAM) in most computer components and systems. Dennard and his colleagues also conceived the scaling theory, a concept of reducing the dimensions of metal-oxide field effect transistors (MOSFETs) and their ...
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