Computers and people professionals that preserve, troubleshoot, program, administer, community, and build them are central to most every trade. Late last month at Sizzling Chips , an engineering design convention hosted, coincidentally, at Stanford, the director of the Microsystems Technology Office at DARPA made a stir by discussing the top of silicon electronics. In a keynote, Robert Colwell , former chief architect at Intel, predicted that by as early as 2020, the computing trade will no longer have the ability to maintain making performance and value improvements by doubling the density of silicon transistors on chips every 18 to 24 months—a feat dubbed Moore’s Legislation after the Intel cofounder Gordon…