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'''Timothy C. May''', better known as '''Tim May''', was an engineer and senior scientist |
'''Timothy C. May''', better known as '''Tim May''', was an engineer and senior scientist[citation needed] at [[Intel]] in the company's early history. He is retired {{As of|2003|lc=on}}. Tim is one subject of the book [[Cyberselfish]] by Paulina Borsook <ref name="Borsook 2000">{{cite book| author = Borsook, Paulina | title = Cyberselfish: A Critical Romp Through the Terribly Libertarian Culture of High-Tech | publisher = PublicAffairs | year = 2000 | url = http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2000/11/cyberselfish-redux | isbn = 1-891620-78-9}}</ref>. |
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==Discovery of Alpha Particle effects on Computer chips== |
==Discovery of Alpha Particle effects on Computer chips== |
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Revision as of 03:37, 1 January 2011
Timothy C. May, better known as Tim May, was an engineer and senior scientist[citation needed] at Intel in the company's early history. He is retired as of 2003[update]. Tim is one subject of the book Cyberselfish by Paulina Borsook [1].
Discovery of Alpha Particle effects on Computer chips
As an engineer, he is most noted for having solved the Alpha Particle Problem, which was affecting the reliability of integrated circuits as device features reached a critical size where a single alpha particle could change the state of a stored value and cause a single event upset. May realized that the ceramic packaging which Intel was using was made from clay which was very slightly radioactive. Intel solved the issue by adopting plastic packaging for their products.
May co-authored the 1981 W. R. G. Baker Prize Award winning paper "Alpha Particle Induced Soft Errors in Dynamic Memories," published in the IEEE TRANSACTIONS on Electron Devices in January 1979 with Murray H. Woods.[2]
Writings on Cryptography and Privacy
Tim May was a founding member and one of the most voluminous contributors to the famous Cypherpunks mailing list: May wrote extensively on cryptography and privacy from the 1990s through 2003.
May wrote a substantial Cypherpunk manifesto, the Cyphernomicon,[3] and his essay, "True Nyms and Crypto Anarchy," was included in a reprint of Vernor Vinge's True Names. In 2001, his work was published in the book Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias (ISBN 0-262-62151-7).
See also
References
External links
- The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto Timothy C. May, 1992.
- Cyphernomicon Tim May, 1994. (HTML version)
- Out of Control Chapter 12 - Tim May & E-Money