Before revision: Over the previous few years, Mead had coined the term "Moore's law" to describe Gordon Moore's 1965 prediction for the growth rate of complexity, and in 1974, Robert Dennard of IBM noted that the scale shrinking that formed the basis of Moore's law also effected the performance of the systems.
After revision: Over the previous few years, Mead had coined the term "Moore's law" to describe Gordon Moore's 1965 prediction for the growth rate of complexity, and in 1974, Robert Dennard of IBM noted that the scale shrinking that formed the basis of Moore's law also affected the performance of the systems.