Stanford Ovshinsky Lives

[Lowell]

The hands-down of title of Detroit’s greatest information age innovator has to go the late Stan Ovshinksy.

Imagine your smart phone being so powerful a computer that you will need no laptop or desktop for heavy lifting. You only need screens, home or away, from pad size to your big screen TV. Everything you need to do digitally is delivered wirelessly to them from your pocket rocket.

Such micro power is about to arrive thanks to one of Ovshinsky’s ideas that is coming to fruition.

In the 1960s, Ovshinsky first began exploring the properties of something known as chalcogenide glasses...

The chemistry and physics behind why that is so important is well beyond me, but the result is something called nonvolatile memory that is 500 to 1,000 times faster than current flash and dynamic random access memory [[DRAM), while using half the power.

Intel Corp. [[Nasdaq: INTC) and Micron Technologies Inc. [[Nasdaq: MU) will start commercializing a technology called phase change memory.

Not “a” technology. “The” technology.

“This is the biggest game changer since the invention of the transistor,” Breezy said by phone last week. “Because of this, over the next 10 years, computing will change more than it has since the advent of the computer.”

Read full article at Crain's Detroit Business.

[Dan Wesson]

I have heard of Stan Ovshinsky for a very long time. Never met him. His Son Harvey, I have a number of times.

[Lowell]

I have heard of Stan Ovshinsky for a very long time. Never met him. His Son Harvey, I have a number of times.

Same here.

[downtownguy]

The whole family is peppered with genius and talent. Stan was way ahead of his time in his research and development of solar energy, batteries and electronic memory. Harvey founded the Fifth Estate underground newspaper in 1965, and went on to win Emmy's and Peabody's for his work in film and television. Grandson Noah is an excellent street reporter who cut his teeth at WDET before becoming Assistant News Director for Wisconsin Public Radio. There's something special in the DNA of that family.

[Dan Wesson]

The whole family is peppered with genius and talent. Stan was way ahead of his time in his research and development of solar energy, batteries and electronic memory. Harvey founded the Fifth Estate underground newspaper in 1965, and went on to win Emmy's and Peabody's for his work in film and television. Grandson Noah is an excellent street reporter who cut his teeth at WDET before becoming Assistant News Director for Wisconsin Public Radio.

There's something special in the DNA of that family.

You are on to something...

Stans parents are more than likely of Ashkenazi Jewish lineage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jews

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashken...h_intelligence


Eastern European Jews

From wiki:
Early life of Stan Ovshinsky

Ovshinsky was born and grew up in the industrial town of Akron, Ohio, then at the center of the American rubber industry. The elder son of working-class Jewish immigrant parents who left Eastern Europe around 1905—Benjamin Ovshinsky from Lithuania and Bertha Munitz from what is now Belarus—Ovshinsky became active in social activities at an early age during the Great Depression.^[7] His lifelong concern to better the lives of workers and minorities, as well as to advance culture and the interests of industry, derive largely from his father, who was a generous, liberal, and highly cultured activist. With his horse and wagon, and later his truck, Ben Ovshinsky made his living collecting scrap metal from factories and foundries.^[2] Based on his father's example, and on teachings offered by the Akron Workmen's Circle, an organization mainly of Jewish immigrants who believed in social justice, Stan Ovshinsky developed a deep commitment to social values, including labor rights, civil rights, and civil liberties.^[8]