by Dana Vantrease and Lisa Hsu on Aug 12, 2022 | Tags: Education, Industry
One of the unexpected side effects of the COVID-19 pandemic was the opportunity to virtually co-teach Computer Architecture at Princeton University during the spring of 2021. Princeton was in need of an instructor, and given that everything was over Zoom anyway, they...
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by Emery Berger on Aug 10, 2022 | Tags: Academia, Education, Machine Learning
CS educators: AI-based developer tools are gunning for your assignments. Resistance is futile GitHub’s AI-based Copilot tool went public this summer. It’s an amazing tool for software developers. But students armed with it will be bringing Uzis to a knife fight. Using...
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by Richard L. Sites on Aug 8, 2022 | Tags: Cache, Prefetching
Cache prefetching is a well-studied topic, but we continue to strive for improvement. Two small ideas are presented here, one for software prefetching and one for hardware. Bigger software prefetches When I worked at Google, a survey of fleet execution time revealed...
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by Koji Inoue on Aug 4, 2022 | Tags: Emerging Technology, Nanophotonics, Quantum Computing, Superconductor Computing
Computing technology entering a new phase Computers have evolved over half a century into an essential and indispensable backbone of social information infrastructure. And now, it faces a significant turning point. Although Moore’s Law, which doubles the number...
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by Alexander Hankin, Lillian Pentecost, Marco Donato, Mark Hempstead, Gu-Yeon Wei, and David Brooks on Aug 3, 2022 | Tags: Memory, Modelling, non-volatile, Persistent, Tools
Non-volatile memory technologies have a rich past dating back to the 1960s. Fairchild R&D Lab member Chih-tang Sah first noted in 1961 the ability of electric charge to remain on the surface of an electrical device for up to several days. By the 1970s the first...
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