I've now been working in the computer field for 36 years -- longer than the majority of today's IT professionals have been alive -- and, for all practical purposes, Moore's Law has prevailed for my entire career. Every 18 months, according to the legendary hardware guru Gordon Moore, the processing power of a microchip doubles.
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IBM Says Moore's Law Will Hold for Another Decade
By Ed Yourdon
Posted October 18, 2000 | Leadership | Leadership |
About The Author
Ed Yourdon was cofounder, with Karen Coburn, of Cutter Consortium. Ed served as Fellow of the Cutter Business Technology Council, and Founding Editor and Editor Emeritus of the Cutter IT Journal. He chaired Cutter's Summit for many years. Mr. Yourdon is widely known as the lead developer of the structured analysis/design methods of the 1970s. He was a codeveloper of the Yourdon/Whitehead method of object-oriented (OO) analysis/design and the… Read More
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