turing lecture of chuck thacker, who brought to you with his colleagues the WYSIWYG paradigm, the ALTO, firefly, tablet pc, networks AN1 and 2 ... is out there to be watched. guess what, i like his theme: improving the future by examing the past ;)

- first time after 43 years that the turing award invented by the assoc of computing machinery was given to someone whose primary contribution has been computer machinery. - i don't have a phd but working with butler lampson for approx. 2 years is the equivalent of 5 phd's.

his thesis:

• computer architecure has hit several wall (clock rate, complexity)=> this will require to build future systems in new ways. in designing future systems it might be worth to examine some of the decisions made in the past.

• computer science is a forgetful discipline

• a speaker at the conference has described 1994 as ancient history. so i suppose by that standards i am pre-historic.

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the prize also goes to mary jane irwin, who talked about

Shared Caches in Multicores: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly