XMOS, he was involved in Picochip, where he wrote the original instruction set. May is married with three sons and lives in Bristol, United Kingdom. Awards and recognition In 1990, May received an Honorary DSc from the University of Southampton, followed in 1991 by his election as a Fellow of The Royal Society and the Clifford Paterson Medal and Prize of the Institute of Physics in 1992. In 2010, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering. May's law May's Law states, in reference to Moore's Law: References Academics of the University of Bristol Alumni of King's College, Cambridge Alumni of the University of Warwick British computer scientists Chief technology officers Computer designers Computer hardware engineers Formal methods people Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Royal Academy of Engineering History of computing in the United Kingdom 1951 births Living people People educated at Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Wakefield