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Legendary Intel executive Andy Grove, who transformed the company into a chip-making powerhouse and helped drive the personal computer boom, has died. He was 79. Although Grove wasn't technically a founding member of Intel (Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce were the company's two co-founders), he was present at the company's incorporation in 1968. He went on to become Intel's president in 1979, CEO in 1987 and chairman from 1997 to 2005.

The Indian-American author called The Washington Post’s charge “totally bogus” Indian-American journalist and author Fareed Zakaria, who has been suspended by CNN and Time magazine after he admitted to plagiarism, is now accused of publishing without attribution a passage from a 2005 book, a charge he vehemently denied as “totally bogus.” The new allegation against the 48-year-old Zakaria, levelled by The Washington Post, was, however, refuted by The Daily Beast, which said the author’s book did contain a citation to what he quoted in his 2008 book The Post-American World. Mr. Zakaria’s book contained a quote from the former Intel...

Our health-care system may well be ripe for a major overhaul, as are our energy and environmental policies. Widespread recognition that all of these reforms are overdue contributed to Barack Obama's victory in November. But if the chaos that resulted from initiating such an overhaul were piled on top of the unresolved status of the financial system, society and government would become exhausted. Instead, the administration must adopt a discipline; not initiating a second wave of chaos before we have a chance to rein in the first. The point is, all administrations, including this one, have a finite capacity to...

The question of how to deal with the hundreds of thousands of illegal Mexicans entering the United States each year has become a divisive issue across the country. President Bush signed a bill last year that authorized the construction of a 700-mile fence along the U.S.-Mexico border, which would cost billions of dollars. Related Stories Mexican President Felipe Calderon has called the idea of building the fence "deplorable," and said today on "Good Morning America" that he wanted to strengthen the Mexican economy to keep Mexicans there. "Let me tell you, I think that the only way to stop migration...

RADIO INTERVIEW SETS TONE FOR GALA OF ELITEIntel CEO Paul Otellini dished on Google, the advantages of not being an engineer and what it's like to give Andy Grove his first performance evaluation in 40 years at the Churchill Club's 20th anniversary dinner. Before 400 dinner guests who included former Intel chiefs Grove and Craig Barrett, Otellini spoke with Tech Nation radio show host Moira Gunn at the event Thursday. The conversation ranged from thoughts about working for Grove to strategic bets Otellini has placed on businesses such as Intel's new WiMax, wireless, broadband technology. Otellini recalled that as Grove's...

Your company's chief executive might be a pretender, and that may be a good thing, according to Stanford University Professor of Management Science and Engineering Robert Sutton. Sutton, the author of a 2001 study of corporate innovation, "Weird Ideas that Work," says that a close look at the evidence shows that chief executive officers (CEOs) probably deserve less credit for their company's fortunes than they receive, and that the best of them manage a tough balancing act: secretly aware of their own fallibility, while also realizing that any sign of indecisiveness could be fatal to their careers. "In just about...

One of the major technical headaches facing chipmaker Intel is the leaking of current from inactive processors, company chairman Andy Grove told an audience at International Electron Devices Meeting in San Francisco yesterday. "Current is becoming a major factor and a limiter on how complex we can build chips," said Grove. He said the company’ engineers "just can’t get rid of" power leakage. The problem of leakage threatens the future validity of Moores Law. As chips become more powerful and draw more power, leakage tends to increase. The industry is used to power leakage rates of up to fifteen per...

<p>Going where the federal government has stepped aside, Intel Chairman Andy Grove has pledged $5 million to help launch a new embryonic stem-cell program at the University of California-San Francisco.</p> <p>The money, the first step toward an ambitious $20 million fundraising goal for the university, will offer scientists unfettered access to this promising field of investigation -- and give UCSF's stem-cell programs a competitive boost in the hottest new field in biomedicine.</p>