Software Digital Logic Integrated Circuit Design Fundamentals: Learn how Sun Distinguished Engineer Steve Rubin invented a method of designing integrated circuits that he thinks is a "no brainer".

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Typically Atypical
Rubin's Radical New Approach is 24 Years Old

By Al Riske

13.Mar.07-In retrospect, Steve Rubin's entree into the world of computers and programming seems almost typical. It was 1968, his second year of high school, and computers were these massive things, 10 times the size of the office he sits in today. In true hacker style, he figured out how to use a teletypewriter donated to his school in New Jersey to shut down the mainframe in New York.

"Of course it left a trail," Rubin recalls. "There were four of us who had been using this thing. They called us up to New York, yelled at us, and offered us summer jobs."

His career since then has been anything but typical.

For one thing he's been working on the same program for 24 years now, which is almost unheard of in computing.

"To have this one program still be in use 24 years later is the thing that amazes me, as well as everyone else," says the Distinguished Engineer.