David Papworth, a 30-year veteran of Intel, on what led to the P6 microprocessor and how that changed the microarchitectural paradigm.
Leah Hoffmann From Communications of the ACM | January 1, 2024
2023-2024 ACM Athena Lecturer Margo Seltzer recalls the motivations behind the development of the Berkeley DB database software library, and other achievements...Leah Hoffmann From Communications of the ACM | December 1, 2023
2019 ACM Computing Prize recipient David Silver on developing the AlphaGo algorithm, his fascination with Go, and on teaching computers to play.
Leah Hoffmann From Communications of the ACM | September 1, 2021
The notion of scalable operating systems led Mendel Rosenblum to virtual machines, which have revolutionized datacenters and enabled modern cloud computing.
Leah Hoffmann From Communications of the ACM | April 1, 2020
Sir Tim Berners-Lee on the formative years of the world wide web, and the challenges it now faces.
Leah Hoffmann From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2017
Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman on their meeting, their research, and the results that billions use every day.
Leah Hoffmann From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2016
Nancy Lynch talks about achieving consensus, developing algorithms, and mimicking biology in distributed systems.
Leah Hoffmann From Communications of the ACM | March 1, 2013
Sanjeev Arora talks about proof, intractability, and finding the best way to approximate problems.
Leah Hoffmann From Communications of the ACM | December 1, 2012
Harvey Mudd College president Maria Klawe talks about increasing the number of women who study computer science.
Leah Hoffmann From Communications of the ACM | September 1, 2012
Artificial intelligence pioneer Judea Pearl discusses probability, causation, the calculus of intervention, and counterfactuals.
Leah Hoffmann From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2012
ACM CEO John White talks about initiatives to serve the organization's professional members, increase international activities, and reform computer science education...Leah Hoffmann From Communications of the ACM | March 1, 2012
A professor of digital humanities at Dartmouth College, Mary Flanagan has spent her career thinking critically about a topic that most of us take for granted: Play...Leah Hoffmann From ACM News | July 5, 2011
Limor Fried discusses the future of the open source hardware movement, Facebook’s decision to open source its new data center, and being featured on the cover of...Leah Hoffmann From ACM News | May 25, 2011
Prith Banerjee discusses collaborating with universities, his startup experiences, and Hewlett-Packard Lab's approach to research and development.
Leah Hoffmann From Communications of the ACM | January 1, 2010
Jon Kleinberg talks about algorithms, information flow, and the connections between Web search and social networks.
Leah Hoffmann From Communications of the ACM | October 1, 2009
Jeannette Wing talks about clusters, creativity, and the power of computational thinking.
Leah Hoffmann From Communications of the ACM | January 1, 2009
Daphne Koller discusses probabilistic relational modeling, artificial intelligence, and her new work with biologists.
Leah Hoffmann From Communications of the ACM | October 1, 2008