Rent's Rule: A Family Memoir

Abstract

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.