Doris Kilbane

Doris Kilbane is a contributing editor to Supply Chain Technology News, Logistics Today, and Operations and Technology magazines, as well as a freelance writer for Automatic Identification Manufacturers (AIM) association and various business software and technology companies. Previously, she was the managing editor of Automatic I.D. News, now Frontline Solutions, for 10 years. Presently, she is also interim executive director for a volunteer program helping senior citizens called Faith in Action Medina County Caregivers.

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Ken Olsen: Faith, Work, And Charity Support A Computing Career

By Doris Kilbane, November 30, 2011

Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC), engineer, scientist, entrepreneur, and philanthropist, led the drive to smaller computers and to a management style rare in the 1950s and 1960s.
Richard W. Hamming: Curiosity And Collaboration Define A Coding Career

By Doris Kilbane, November 30, 2011

Richard W. Hamming was the inventor of error detecting and correcting computer codes that carry his name.
Kurzweil Speculates on Solar Energy, Health and Other Topics

By Doris Kilbane, March 17, 2010

Raymond Kurzweil, noted technologist and futurist, spoke as part of The Celebrated Speakers Series, presented by the Public Programs Committee of the Emerson Center in Vero Beach, Fla.
Arnold Beckman: Changing Scientific Research, Both Then And Now

By Doris Kilbane, December 07, 2009

This biographical sketch about Arnold Beckman, written by Doris Kilbane, honors his induction into Electronic Design's Electronic Engineering Hall of Fame. Beckman was the founder of Beckman Instruments and invented the pH meter.
Robert Boschert: A Man Of Many Hats Changes The World Of Power Supplies

By Doris Kilbane, December 07, 2009

This biographical sketch about Robert Boschert, written by Doris Kilbane, honors his induction into Electronic Design's Electronic Engineering Hall of Fame. Boschert was instrumental in the development of low-cost switching-mode power supplies.
Jack Gifford: Baseball’s Loss Was The World’s Gain

By Doris Kilbane, December 07, 2009

This biographical sketch about Jack Gifford, written by Doris Kilbane, honors his induction into Electronic Design's Electronic Engineering Hall of Fame. Among other accomplishments, he founded Maxim Integrated Products
Nick Holonyak Jr.: 81 Years Old And Still Doing Groundbreaking Research

By Doris Kilbane, December 07, 2009

This biographical sketch about Nick Holonyak Jr., written by Doris Kilbane, honors his induction into Electronic Design's Electronic Engineering Hall of Fame. Holonyak invented the first practical LED among other inventions.
Robert Kahn: Expect Much More Computer Networking To Come

By Doris Kilbane, December 07, 2009

This biographical sketch about Robert Kahn, written by Doris Kilbane, honors his induction into Electronic Design's Electronic Engineering Hall of Fame. Kahn helped create the ARPANET and worked with Vinton Cerf to create TCP/IP communications protocols.
Theodore Maiman: Professional Focus, Personal Warmth

By Doris Kilbane, December 07, 2009

This biographical sketch about Theodore H. Maiman, written by Doris Kilbane, honors his induction into Electronic Design's Electronic Engineering Hall of Fame. Maiman invented the first laser while working at Hughes Research Lab.
Joseph Engelberger: Robotics Move From Industry To Space To Elder Care

By Doris Kilbane, December 01, 2008

Retirement isn’t coming easy to 83-year-old Joseph Engelberger, widely known as the Father of Robotics. “There’s a lot that can still be done,” he says wistfully, despite already accomplishing so much in the robotic field. In fact, Engelber
Jay Forrester: RAM Innovator Took A New Career—And Education—By The Horns

By Doris Kilbane, December 01, 2008

His pioneering work in digital computer technology gave the world reliable random-access magnetic-core memory that revolutionized computer speed and power. Nevertheless, Jay Forrester says his work today is “much more important.” “In 1
George Frye: Family Need Leads To A Better Hearing Aid And A New Industry

By Doris Kilbane, December 01, 2008

George Frye was happily working at Tektronix on high-speed sampling oscilloscopes in 1970 when his hearing-impaired mom needed some help. “Her old Zenith hearing aid was getting a little cranky, ” said Frye. She took him up on an offer to b
James Gosling: From Sneaking Into Computer Labs To Sneaking Out Java

By Doris Kilbane, December 01, 2008

James Gosling, inventor of the Java programming language and the virtual machine, skipped many of his high school math and physics classes. His teachers knew it, but they still gave him A’s. That’s because, said Gosling, they knew why he wa
Alan Kay: Computers—A Revolutionary Medium For Boosting Human Thought

By Doris Kilbane, December 01, 2008

The printing press was one of the most influential inventions in human history. Could universal personal computing and worldwide networking be just as significant to human thought? In the 1960s, the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA)
Marvin Minsky: In AI, Robotics, And Any Field, Stand Alone To Stand Apart

By Doris Kilbane, December 01, 2008

If you want to make a difference, don’t follow the crowd, Marvin Minsky advises today’s students. Don’t go into the most popular field. “That could be a disaster. When I started to work on artificial neural networks, only four other researcher
Nolan Bushnell: Serious Thoughts About Fun And Games

By Doris Kilbane, October 19, 2007

Nolan Bushnell, popularly revered as the father of electronic games, is still inventing and dreaming of new ways for people to use technology for fun. In fact, he is forging a different direction from today's shoot 'em up, beat 'em do
Douglas C. Engelbart: The Mouse That Roared

By Doris Kilbane, October 19, 2007

For better or worse, your computer and its connections to information and other people worldwide were the vision of Douglas C. Engelbart. It all started as he contemplated his impending marriage while driving to work back in 1951. &quot;I was ex
Working With Stevie Wonder

By Doris Kilbane, October 20, 2006

When Stevie Wonder spotted Ray Kurzweil demonstrating the Kurzweil Reading Machine on the Today Show, he wanted to know more. So he called up the company that same day and paid a visit. He became the first customer of the Kurzweil Reading Mach
Company Founder—Many Times Over

By Doris Kilbane, October 20, 2006

Ray Kurzweil has been honored for creating the first commercially marketed large-vocabulary speech-recognition system in 1987. It was done under his Kurzweil Applied Intelligence (KAI) company, founded in 1982. Today, descendants of Kurzweil’s
On The Cusp Of Immortality

By Doris Kilbane, October 20, 2006

Ray Kurzweil has written five books, including The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, and Fantastic Voyage: Live Long Enough to Live Forever (co-authored with Terry Grossman, MD). The first discusses the accelerating rate of t

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