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Fran Allen: Compilers and Parallel Computing Systems

Thu Feb 21 16:55:00 2008

Fran Allen delivers Organick Lecture(click to enlarge) Fran Allen was the Turing Award winner for 2006. This afternoon she's giving the University of Utah's Organick Memorial Lecture. I've reported on some of these in the past few years: Jim Gray on Distributed Computing Economics Vint Cerf on Internet Challenges Alan Kay: Is Computer Science an Oxymoron? Alan Kay: The 100 Dollar Laptop and Powerful Ideas Jeannette Wing on Computational Thinking I try to come every year. I find it's something I'm inspired by each time. The grand goal of high performance computers right now is a 1 petaflop machine.
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