Open AccessRent's Rule: A Family Memoir
Author(s) -
Thomas M. Rent
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
ieee solid-state circuits magazine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.294
H-Index - 20
eISSN - 1943-0590
pISSN - 1943-0582
DOI - 10.1109/mssc.2009.935294
Subject(s) - components, circuits, devices and systems , engineered materials, dielectrics and plasmas , aerospace , computing and processing , fields, waves and electromagnetics , geoscience , robotics and control systems , signal processing and analysis , transportation , communication, networking and broadcast technologies , power, energy and industry applications
IEEE Solid-State Circuits readers are fortunate. In mid-October 2008, my 82-yearold father received a request from the IEEE to prepare an article on Rent's rule that would be featured in the Winter 2010 issue. The IEEE didn't know at the time that my father, Edward Francis Rent, died unexpectedly at home on 3 October 2008, seemingly from a stroke. Had my father received this IEEE request prior to his death, he would have politely turned it down. He was not one to celebrate his brilliance or draw attention to himself, ever. He simply lived for the benefit of others.