April 23rd Stanford Hero Lecture + IEEE SV Tech History + 50th Anniversary of Moore's Law

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April 18, 2015 Alan Weissberger

1.  April 23rd Stanford Engineering Hero Lecture: Marcian "Ted" Hoff, PhD
 IEEE SV Tech Committee officer responsible for Electronics
 
You can attend in person or watch the live video stream -  7pm April 23rd: Stanford Engineering Hero Lecture: Marcian "Ted" Hoff
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2.  Confirmed IEEE SV Tech History future committee meetings:
  • April 28: How Did Hard Disk Drive Track Widths Get That Small? @ Western Digital, San Jose (waiting list)
  • June 1:  History of EDA/CAD for LSI Design  @KeyPoint Credit Union, Santa Clara
Meeting information at:  http://siliconvalleyhistory.com

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3. Three excellent sessions at CHM on Life of Gordon Moore on Friday, April 17th. The comments by Bill Davidow (VC and x-Intel executive) about tech effect on our social and economic life were provocative if not contentious.
A short movie on Gordon Moore was shown after lunch. You can watch it at: Gordon E. Moore | Chemical Heritage Foundation
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4.  URl's for recent articles on the 50th Anniversary of Moore's Law:

https://socialdashboard.com/news/at-50-moores-law-has-only-started-to-disrupt-everything-we-do-1

http://www.forbes.com/sites/roberthof/2015/04/17/at-50-moores-law-has-only-started-to-disrupt-everything-we-do/

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/203677-silicon-valley-celebrates-moores-law-looks-forward-to-next-50-years

http://www.hihuadu.com/2015/04/19/today-five-years-later-moores-law-has-only-just-begun-to-subvert-everything-19364.html

http://www.wired.com/2015/04/50-years-moores-law-still-pushes-tech-double/

http://fortune.com/2015/04/19/moores-law-turns-50-but-will-it-soon-cease-to-exist/

http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-04/19/moores-law-50th-anniversary-future-disruption

http://www.wsj.com/articles/moores-law-runs-out-of-gas-1429282819

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/wp/2015/04/19/honoring-technologys-power-couple-moores-law-and-the-network-effect/