Tech museum honours Gordon Moore, philanthropist

THE SAN JOSE Tech Museum of Innovation has seen fit to honour Intel co-founder Gordon Moore with its Global Humanitarian Award.

Moore has, um, leveraged that fact that he's been blamed for coming out with a postulation that has become dubbed a law but which is in fact just a guess anyhow, to establish a foundation named after himself.

The foundation has been trying to undo some of the environmental damage billions of Intel processors have done to the planet by conserving bits of coastline near where Moore lives as well as helping out the odd museum and nursing home with a few bob.

The Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation has cough up around a billion dollars for such good works.

According to Peter Friess, the Tech Museum's president, Moore "has made the Silicon Valley what it is. He did the groundwork," he told the San Jose Mercury News. "I would love to see that more often in so many places in the world - that people give money away so graciously as often as he does, and for such important things," he added.

Moore, now 78, penned a statement in which he wrote: "I feel privileged to have the resources to help tackle some of the great issues facing us here at home and around the world."

Previous winners of the award include the even richer Bill Gates. µ