by Jishen Zhao on Sep 29, 2022 | Tags: Autonomous driving, Research
At 6pm in the evening, you get into a car and tell the restaurant you will have dinner. The car will drive itself there, while you may choose to read a book, surf the web, or take a nap. You may have once considered this a science fiction scene, but now it is becoming...
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by Xinyang (Kevin) Song and Sihang Liu and Gennady Pekhimenko on Sep 20, 2022 | Tags: Memory, non-volatile, Persistent, Research
The Cancellation of the Intel Optane Product Line Recently, Intel announced the cancellation of all Optane products, including both Optane SSDs and Optane Persistent Memory. The news came all of a sudden but was not totally unexpected, as Micron sold the 3D XPoint fab...
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by Yungang Bao on Sep 15, 2022 | Tags: Computer Architecture, david patterson, Interview, john hennessy, turing award
Prof. John Hennessy and Prof. David Patterson received the 2017 ACM A.M. Turing Award for “pioneering a systematic, quantitative approach to the design and evaluation of computer architectures with enduring impact on the microprocessor industry”. I used to read many...
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by Yuhao Zhu on Sep 13, 2022 | Tags: Systems, Vision, Wetware
René Descartes, inspired by anatomical observations of nerve fibers, suggested in his monumental work Principles of Philosophy that (in modern terms) visual stimuli of the external world are captured and transmitted as fluids traveling through nerve fibers, leading to...
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