The future of computing: a conversation with John Hennessy (Google I/O '18)

In this Keynote Session, John Hennessy, pioneering computer scientist, distinguished engineer, and joint winner of the Turing Award for his work developing modern day computer chip architecture, shares his thoughts on the future of computing in an era of artificial intelligence.
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[@tjpld]

This guy forgot more about microprocessor design than most people will ever learn.

[@KyleMcNally]

This was a great talk, and thank you for including the audience questions.

[@Megatomic]

I agree, the questions from the audience were inspired as were his answers.

[@back81192]

This is a great talk. Although I don't know some of the knowledge, it really makes me to think.

[@brennan123]

Fantastic talk! I'd be curious to hear more about what people think about FPGAs. If every laptop and phone had an FPGA built in then we can start having compilers target the FPGA. This would span the chasm between domain specific applications (TPUs, GPUs) and general purpose computing. Moving memory closer to the computation for data indexing (trees) would be another win.

[@MrAtomUniverse]

Intel bought an FPGA company down, now it's integrating FPGA into their Intel chips. It's more for server usage, isn't it?
E.g. with FPGA, i could send a code that is optimized for database READ or optimized for Write?
Don't see it in general computers anytime soon.

[@dian_dian]

wait, that's the guy that wrote my textbook!

[@rmiddlehouse]

You know you are deep in the game when you remember the start of the internet and the www as two different things

[@basilevanhoorick6971]

A very driven speaker and very interesting topic, thanks!

[@enjiKAL]

This is seriously inspiring!

[@WillTesler]

JavaScript programmers need to watch this talk lol.

[@bigbangbk]

haha

[@grumpylama]

Do you think that Python or Java is better at that level ? All our current programming languages are high-level from this talk point of view.

[@NSN2195]

What a presentation! Thank you for posting this :)

[@harirao12345]

Astounding talk!

[@nicholasking6911]

Brilliant lecture, Mr John Hennessy.

[@Vermilicious]

The last question reminded me of the topic of cache misses, which is sort of "new", and today's languages doesn't really help programmers write programs the right way even if it's possible. If languages, compilers and tools would help "automatically" optimize in such ways, that'd be a nice start. I've also been quite interested in the topic of domain-specific languages, and I'm sort of surprised this topic isn't hotter than it is. Then again, enormous amount of time, work and money are put into writing apps built on HTML and JavaScript. It's ridiculously inefficient. I think people got lazy because of excess computational power. In the early days, a lot of creative solutions found their way into products to squeeze out as much as possible. Programmers have gotten sloppy.

[@ab1577]

I can listen this man for hours

[@bigbangbk]

What a great talk!

[@Joyce-he9vm]

very informative, great talk

[@subtletherapy]

I didn’t understand half of what was said, but still learned so much, wow

[@metabolic_jam]

Highly recommend his Turing award lecture from 2017 with the co-awardee David Patterson.

[@pczou]

no comments for such a great talk?

[@SimoneRondelli1990]

Listened 3 minutes of this talk (I flagged as "watch later") but damn, this guy is an AMAZING orator.

[@AdrieKooijman]

What a great talk, congratulations!
I conclude d we need a lot of AI in our compilers.

[@Calm_Energy]

@23:00 post-silicon is a crazy thought!

[@rohankotwani9603]

Would hardware architects be involved in the software design too or just at the end for execution?

[@lflee]

Imagine guys like him, Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, Demis Hassabis sitting in the same room talking about things. Do you really think you can imagine?

[@checkerist]

First, they will discuss how their kids are doing and then will step into a quantum cyber wormhole to address business-related stuff in private.

[@WillTesler]

The Unity Entity-Component-System is a great move towards better architecture. It allows SIMD architecture at a high level.

[@_____case]

This man is their Chair of the Board of Directors.

[@user-mm6zg8re1u]

有趣的演讲，硬件的未来

[@raul3172]

You said my thoughts.

[@deeplearningpartnership]

Very interesting!

[@GrumpyStoic]

Is that Brad Pitt at 26:40? Researching for a role perhaps...

[@matthewlea1311]

I leave my phone an and I don't always turn my laptop off, and I'm even thinking why I turn my main computer off.

[@mrwho2513]

I don't understand much here...but he's right!

[@EastBurningRed]

90% is from his computer architecture book

[@Maximara]

ARM based M1 says "look at what I can do" :-)

[@kevinliu6002]

His voice and manner of speaking is similar to Steve Jobs'! Lol

[@whipmanx3]

I was thinking about the same thing

[@FedJimSmith]

But I love C++

[@encyclobotanica]

Wow

[@DavidVargas]

Can we build this guy into an AI?

[@UtahHeroes]

Bitcoin is already mined with ASICs.

[@aaronwei1193]

This talk overturned my cognition

[@sankiago]

it should be illegal to be this provocative

[@giorgosevaggelinos3044]

A nice way to spent 40 minutes...