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Radiation Protection Dosimetry 2005 113(4):353; doi:10.1093/rpd/nch498
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Editorial

Moore's law and Murphy's law

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It has been said that Moore's law(1) is for optimists and Murphy's law is for pessimists. Moore's law stems from an observation made, in 1965, by the former president of the electronics firm, Intel, Gordon Moore. Mr Moore noted that the number of transistors that could be placed in an integrated circuit was increasing nearly exponentially, and the number could be . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Joseph C. McDonald, Editor-in-Chief


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