John Hennessy and David Patterson to Deliver Turing Lecture at ISCA 2018

May 29, 2018

2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipients John Hennessy and David Patterson will deliver the Turing Lecture on June 4 at ISCA 2018 in Los Angeles. The lecture will take place from 5 to 6 p.m. PDT and will be open to the public. It will also be livestreamed.

Titled “A New Golden Age for Computer Architecture: Domain-Specific Hardware/Software Co-Design, Enhanced Security, Open Instruction Sets, and Agile Chip Development,” the talk will cover recent developments and future directions in computer architecture.

Hennessy and Patterson were recognized with the Turing Award for “pioneering a systematic, quantitative approach to the design and evaluation of computer architectures with enduring impact on the microprocessor industry.”