Timothy C. May (better known as Tim May ), an American technical and political writer, was an electronic engineer and senior researcher at Intel during the formation of the company [2] . He retired in 2003.
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Alpha Particle Detection for Computer Chips
As an engineer, May is best known for solving the " alpha particle problem" that affected the reliability of integrated circuits . The size of the chips was so reduced that the alpha particle could change the state of the stored value and cause a failure. May realized that the ceramic bodies made of clay , which Intel used for its integrated circuits, had weak radioactive radiation [3] . Intel solved this problem by increasing the charge in each cell to reduce its susceptibility to radiation [4] and using plastic packaging for its products.
Co-author of the document (with Murray H. Woods): “Helion-induced soft errors in dynamic memory,” which was awarded the 1981 IEEE WRG Baker Prize , and was published in the IEEE Transactions on Electronic Instruments in January 1979. [five]
Publications on cryptography and privacy
May was one of the founders and one of the most active members of the Cyberpunk email list . He wrote about cryptography and personal life from the 1990s to 2003.
May wrote a substantial part of the cipher-punk-thematic FAQ - “ Cryptronomicon ” (which included an earlier version of the “ Cryptanarchist Manifesto”) [6] , and his essay “True Nyms and Crypto Anarchy”, was included in the reprint of the novels “ True Names ” by Vernor Vinje . In 2001, his work was published in the book “Cryptanarchy, Cyberstate and Pirate Utopias”. [7]
The author of the term “ four horsemen of the Infocalypse ” (by analogy with the “ four horsemen of the Apocalypse ”) refers to drug trafficking , money laundering , terrorism and pedophilia , [8] which are used to intimidate and justify restrictions in the field of cryptography , which limits privacy and anonymity .
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- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/21/obituaries/timothy-c-may-dead.html
- ↑ Greenberg, Andy. This Machine Kills Secrets: How WikiLeakers, Cypherpunks, and Hacktivists Aim to Free the World's Information. - Dutton Adult, 2012 .-- P. 384. - ISBN 0525953205 .
- ↑ May, Timothy C. & Woods, Murray H. (April 1978), A New Physical Mechanism for Soft Errors in Dynamic Memories , Reliability Physics Symposium, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers , < http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ xpl / articleDetails.jsp? tp = & arnumber = 4208205 > . Retrieved April 26, 2014.
- ↑ Jackson, "Inside Intel", pg. 183
- ↑ IEEE WRG Baker Prize Award Recipients (link not available) . IEEE.org . New York City : Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers . Date of treatment February 28, 2011. Archived April 25, 2011.
- ↑ May, Timothy C. The Cyphernomicon: Cypherpunks FAQ and More, Version 0.666 unopened (link not available) . Cypherpunks.to (September 10, 1994). Date of treatment February 28, 2011. Archived on June 7, 2011.
- ↑ Ludlow, edited by Peter. Crypto anarchy, cyberstates, and pirate utopias. - Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 2001. - ISBN 0-262-62151-7 .
- ↑ Carey, Robert; Jacquelyn Burkell. Revisiting the Four Horsemen of the Infopocalypse: Representations of anonymity and the Internet in Canadian newspapers // First Monday: journal. - 2007 .-- August ( vol. 12 , no. 8 ).