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kibibutoday at 2:51 AM4 repliesview on HN

> At Bell Labs, Muller and fellow scientist Glen Wilk ’90, who is now vice president of technology at ASM, tried replacing silicon dioxide - the prevailing gate material, which leaked too much current at small scales – with hafnium oxide.

They are naming professors like "Now That's What I Call Music" albums now?

(I genuinely can't find why there's a '90 there, suspect it's a copy/paste error?)


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bsdertoday at 2:59 AM

Presumably because he is a Cornell alumnus from 1990. The article is at cornell.edu .

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bitwizetoday at 7:14 AM

University news sources often cite alums of the university with their year of graduation.