The Long Arm of Moores Law: Microelectronics and American Science (Inside Technology) by Cyrus C. M. Mody

The MIT Press. Hardcover. New. Hardcover. 304 pages. Dimensions: 9.0in. x 6.0in. x 0.6in.Since the mid 1960s, American science has undergone significant changes in the way it is organized, funded, and practiced. These changes include the decline of basic research by corporations; a new orientation toward the short-term and the commercial, with pressure on universities and government labs to participate in the market; and the promotion of interdisciplinarity. In this book, Cyrus Mody argues that the changes in American science that began in the 1960s co-evolved with and were shaped by the needs of the civilianized US semiconductor industry. In 1965, Gordon Moore declared that the most profitable number of circuit components that can be crammed on a single silicon chip doubles every year. Mody views Moores Law less as prediction than as self-fulfilling prophecy, pointing to the enormous investments of capital, people, and institutions the semiconductor industry required -- the long arm of Moores Law that helped shape all of science. Mody offers a series of case studies in microelectronics that illustrate the reach of Moores Law. He describes the pressures on Stanford Universitys electrical engineers during the Vietnam era, IBMs exploration of alternatives to semiconductor technology, the emergence of consortia to integrate research across disciplines and universities, and the interwoven development of the community and academic discipline of molecular electronics as the vision of a molecular computer informed the restructuring of research programs. This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN.