Moore left to ponder future
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Former Avalanche center Steve Moore is hopeful he can return to the life he had before a vicious, blind-side hit by Todd Bertuzzi left him with three fractured vertebrae and post-concussion symptoms.
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(InfoWorld) - The former engineering major in me got a nice surprise Tuesday afternoon when Intel's Gordon Moore (that's right, the guy behind The Law) spoke at the Intel Developer Forum Tuesday. Tech Nation's Moira Gunn hosted an hour-long conversation with Moore, and while I'm not usually one to go all weak-kneed at the sight of tech-industry giants, I have to admit that the father of Moore's Law got me going. Moore shared his thoughts on more than 40 years in the semiconductor industry and really helped bring into focus exactly how far we've come. The entire conversation will be available as a webcast shortly, but here are a few of my favorite tidbits: * On what the world would look like today if the integrated circuits Moore helped develop hadn't taken off, and computers were still built from individual transistors and components: There was an early projection by one of the few companies making transistors that eventually they could get the cost of a transistor down to 68 cents. Well, the IC did take off, and "today you buy them for 10 picobucks!" * Intel wasn't close to the first choice as a name for the company. It was initially called Moore-Noyce Electronics and a nice punny little name they used to initially incorporate the firm, but they ran through five or six candidates for a real name before they got Intel cleared as a trademark. Apparently it used to be standard procedure to clear such names in New York and California and assume that that got you the rest of the U.S. Of course, Moore said, "Then we ended up having to buy 'Intel' from a hotel company in the Midwest." Score one for the flyover states. * On innovation in general: "The most exciting things are usually in the interfaces, and there's lots of exciting stuff going on [now] in the interface between computers and biology." * Finally, what was Moore excited about for the next decades of technology? "We're going to get to the point where computers have really good language recognition ... where you interact with your computer the way you interact with your colleagues." Gordon, I can't wait. PC World is an InfoWorld affiliate
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Linux kernel maintainer Andrew Morton last week revealed some of his plans for the next kernel version, a few days after the final release of Linux 2.6.20.
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&quot;Fahrenheit 9/11&quot; has already competed and been a winner at the box office. Now, Moore thinks his movie can compete for best picture.
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Dharma Productions is looking to the future and a change is on the cards.
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Rangers defender Craig Moore expects to be sidelined for two months after having surgery on a double hernia later this week. The 28-year-old Australian international will miss the
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Australia skipper Craig Moore looks set to leave Glasgow Rangers with a move to German side Borussia Moenchengladbach on the cards.
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Intel's chief executive riffs on layoffs, Google and what happens next.
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Greg Canessa explains his departure and the future of casual games. In Game|Life.
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Chris Stone, who was instrumental in Novell&#39;s acquisition of SUSE Linux, has left for other pursuits, the company said Thursday.
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Rep. John Shadegg, who announced earlier this week that he wouldn't seek an eighth term, may be reconsidering his decision to retire, a newspaper reported Thursday.
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His baseball glove left behind, Mewelde Moore is looking forward &#151; ready to run downfield, dart in and out of a defender's grasp.
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William Clay Ford Jr. is giving up the chief executiveÂs title after five years. Alan Mulally, an executive at Boeing, will be the president and chief executive.
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Speculation surrounds Sir Sean Connery's acting future after he reportedly pulls out of his latest film project.
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The company has decided to leave the public markets.
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Director Michael Moore is planning a sequel to "Fahrenheit 9/11," his polemic against the Bush administration, to be released about the time of the next presidential campaign, a spokeswoman for his distributor said on Thursday.
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Software executive, who came from Apple in 1981, says he's not sure what he'll do when he leaves Microsoft in September, but it will probably be outside of tech.