- Timothy C. May
Timothy C. May, better known as Tim May was an engineer and chief scientist at
Intel at an early and crucial point in that company's history. He is retiredas of 2003 .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 singlealpha particle could change the state of a stored value and cause asingle event upset . May realized that theceramic packaging which Intel was using was made fromclay which was very slightlyradioactive . Intel solved the issue by adoptingplastic 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 . [http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/about/awards/pr/bakepr.html]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 [http://www.cypherpunks.to/faq/cyphernomicron/cyphernomicon.txt] , and his essay, "True Nyms and Crypto Anarchy," was included in a reprint ofVernor Vinge 'sTrue Names . In 2001, his work was published in the book "Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias" (ISBN 0-262-62151-7).ee also
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Assassination market
*Crypto-anarchism
*Cyphernomicon
*Cypherpunk References
# [http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/about/awards/pr/bakepr.html "IEEE W. R. G. Baker Prize Award Recipients"]
External links
* [http://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/crypto-anarchy.html The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto] Timothy C. May, 1992.
* [http://www.swiss.ai.mit.edu/6805/articles/crypto/cypherpunks/cyphernomicon/-FAQ Cyphernomicon] Tim May, 1994. (HTML [http://www.cyphernet.org/cyphernomicon/cyphernomicon.contents.html version] )
* [http://www.kk.org/outofcontrol/ch12-a.html "Out of Control" Chapter 12 - Tim May & E-Money]
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