The Long Arm of Moore's Law: Microelectronics and American Science

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Cyrus C. M. Mody (Chair in History of Science, Technology, and Innovation, Maastricht University)

The Long Arm of Moore's Law

Microelectronics and American Science

Cyrus C. M. Mody (Chair in History of Science, Technology, and Innovation, Maastricht University)

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MIT Press
09 December 2016

History of science; History of engineering & technology; Electronics engineering

Series: Inside Technology

"How, beginning in the mid 1960s, the US semiconductor industry helped shape changes in American science, including a new orientation to the short-term and the commercial.

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 ""Moore's 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 Moore's Law that helped shape all of science.

Mody offers a series of case studies in microelectronics that illustrate the reach of Moore's Law. He describes the pressures on Stanford University's electrical engineers during the Vietnam era, IBM's exploration of alternatives to semiconductor technology, the emergence of consortia to integrate research across disciplines and universities, and the interwoven development of the the molecular electronics community and associated academic institutions as the vision of a molecular computer informed the restructuring of research programs."

By: Cyrus C. M. Mody (Chair in History of Science Technology and Innovation Maastricht University)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 544g
ISBN: 9780262035491
ISBN 10: 0262035499
Series: Inside Technology
Pages: 304
Publication Date: 09 December 2016
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Cyrus C. M. Mody is Professor and Chair in the History of Science, Technology, and Innovation at Maastricht University. He is the author of Instrumental Community- Probe Microscopy and the Path to Nanotechnology (MIT Press).

Reviews for The Long Arm of Moore's Law: Microelectronics and American Science

Mody's book offers a wide range of important issues providing food for thought on the R&D behind our modern systems. Amid the different models of innovation, and approaches to technology management, civilianisation was as pertinent to the advent of semiconductors as it is today. New Scientist