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IMMIGRANT OF THE DAY: DOV FROHMAN-BENTCHKOWSKY - INVENTOR

By Greg Siskind

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Dutch-born Dov Frohman-Bentchkowsky is one of the father's of "flash" memory, a critical technology in computing. He's our third 2009 inductee in to the Inventors Hall of Fame and his contribution is described as follows: Dov Frohman-Bentchkowsky invented a computer chip that could be erased by exposing it to ultraviolet light, then have new data written onto it. Before Frohman?s erasable programmable read only memory chip, or EPROM, memory chips were either ?volatile,? meaning that they would lose their contents if they lost power, or ?read only,? meaning that they were stable without power but could only be encoded at...

Full post as published by Greg Siskind's Blog on April 10, 2009 (boomark / email).

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