Alphabet chairman John Hennessy and Google distinguished engineer Dave
Patterson talk with Recode’s Kara Swisher about winning the 2017 Turing Award,
a prestigious achievement in computer science. In the 1980s, Hennessy and
Patterson developed a revolutionary new type of computer processor called
RISC, which allowed computers to run faster and more efficiently — a
breakthrough that became especially important in the era of mobile devices and
the internet of things. They talk about the intense pushback they received
from the computing industry at the time and why we're now in a "new golden age
of computer architecture," filled with difficult problems that businesses have
thus far been unable to crack. The upshot: Another RISC-like revolution needs
to happen.
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Alphabet chairman John Hennessy and Google distinguished engineer Dave
Patterson talk with Recode’s Kara Swisher about winning the 2017 Turing Award,
a prestigious achievement in computer science. In the 1980s, Hennessy and
Patterson developed a revolutionary new type of computer processor called
RISC, which allowed computers to run faster and more efficiently — a
breakthrough that became especially important in the era of mobile devices and
the internet of things. They talk about the intense pushback they received
from the computing industry at the time and why we're now in a "new golden age
of computer architecture," filled with difficult problems that businesses have
thus far been unable to crack. The upshot: Another RISC-like revolution needs
to happen.
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