I remember the difficulty we had in the beginning replacing magnetic cores in memories and eventually we had both cost and performance advantages. But it wasn't at all clear in the beginning.

He is the recipient of the National Medal of Technology and the Presidential Medal of Freedom the United States' highest civilian honor. In April 1979 Dr. The library at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences at the University of Cambridge is named after him and his wife Betty as is the Moore Laboratories building (dedicated 1996) at Caltech.