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Abstract
A brief review of Moore's Law and its effect on the cost of computing will be
discussed. Moore's law is often given as an exponentially increasing function
with time, however, there are many observations of quantities that have similar
variations with time and some seem to be an increased, (super) variation over
time. Moore's law as presently stated is simply an observation of the packing
of transistors on a piece of silicon. How long will Moore's law continue as an
exponential growth will be discussed using some abstract arguments.
Speaker Biography
Jerome K. Butler was born in Shreveport, Louisiana. He received the B.S.E.E.
degree from Louisiana Polytechnic Institute, Ruston, and M.S.E.E. and Ph.D.
degrees from the University of Kansas, Lawrence. He was a Research Assistant
and held a CRES Fellowship at the Center for Research in Engineering Sciences,
University of Kansas. He conducted research concerned with electromagnetic
wave propagation and the optimization and synthesis techniques of antenna
arrays. He joined the faculty of the School of Engineering, Southern Methodist
University, Dallas, Texas where he is now a University Distinguished Professor
of Electrical Engineering. His primary research areas are solid state
injection lasers, radiation and detection studies of lasers, millimeter-wave
systems, integrated optics and the application of integrated optical circuits,
and quantum electronics. In 1977 he was given the Southern Methodist
University Sigma Xi Research Award. In summers from 1969 to 1990, he was a
Staff Scientist, at David Sarnoff Research Center (RCA Laboratories),
Princeton, NJ. During the 1996-97 academic year he was on sabbatical leave
with the Photonics and Micromachining System Components laboratory at Texas
Instruments. He has held consulting appointments with the Photonics and
Micromachining System Components laboratory at Texas Instruments, the Central
Research Laboratory of Texas Instruments, Inc., the Geotechnical Corporation of
Teledyne, Inc., Earl Cullum Associates of Dallas, Texas and the University of
California Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico.
Dr. Butler is a member of Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi, Eta Kappa Nu, and is a
registered professional engineer in the State of Texas. He was elected a
fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to semiconductor lasers and the
radiation characteristics of optical waveguides.
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