Timothy C. May
Timothy C. May, better known as Tim May, was an engineer and chief scientist at Intel at an early and crucial period in that company's history. He is retired as of 2003[update].
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.[1]
Writings on Cryptography and Privacy
Tim May was an early contributor to the famous Cypherpunks mailing list, and wrote extensively on cryptography and privacy during the 1990s.
May wrote a substantial Cypherpunk manifesto, the Cyphernomicon,[2] 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).
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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