Computer Science: Still Crazy After All These Years
This evening
The message
PPT Slide
The nature of the field
Science vs. engineering
“Engineering research”: oxymoron?
Traditional view
Alternative view
RIP university computing research?
Moore’s law drives progress in the digital world
Transistors per die / linear scale
Transistors per die / log scale
Of course, it’s not that easy
The future
Prediction is even harder in a field characterized by exponential progress
Undeterred …
Extrapolations can provide a guide
So what about bandwidth?
Bandwidth and storage will be more plentiful than cycles
The technical challenges are as exciting as the implications
Software challenges related to large-scale systems
Software challenges related to intelligent human-centered systems
A few words regarding education
But wait! It gets worse!
I’m not finished yet!
Why?
Conclusion
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