David May is a British chip designer and computer scientist. David May joined the British company INMOS in 1979, based in Bristol. Here he was the architect of the transputer microprocessor, designed to run the occam programming language. He is now a professor, at the University of Bristol. May's Law: Software efficiency halves every 18 months, compensating Moore's Law. Wikipedia
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