Gordon Moore has been named as this year's recipient of the Tech Museum of Innovation's Global Humanitarian Award.  Mr. Moore is co-founder and retired CEO of Intel Corp., and also founded the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation.  He will be presented with the award at the Tech Museum Awards in San Jose this November.

Moore's contributions to environmental conservation, science and education were considered in his nomination for the award.  Past recipients include Microsoft's Bill Gates (for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation) and Applied Materials' chairman James C. Morgan, who has been a key participant in the development of the Tech Museum Awards.  The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has contributed more than $1 billion to the improvement of quality of life for future generations.

Mr. Moore may be best known for "Moore's Law," which predicted that the number of components the industry would be able to place on a single computer chip would double every year.  He revised this statement in 1975 when he changed the timeframe to every two years.  Moore's Law is now considered to be the guiding principle of the semiconductor industry.

The Tech Museum of Innovation is a technology and science museum located in San Jose.

By Sile Mc Mahon