Re:Parallel Computing: The End of the Turing Madness
by MaysonL on Wednesday March 17, 2010 @12:13AM
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If anyone is interested in a more impressive take on impending progress with parallel computation, they should take a look at the Ph.D. thesis: Propagation Networks: A Flexible and Expressive Substrate for Computation.[1]
Thesis supervisor: Gerry Sussman.
Thesis committee: Guy Steele Jr., Patrick Winston, and Tom Knight.
Opening paragraph: *"REVOLUTION is at hand. The revolution everyone talks about is, of course, the parallel hardware revolution; less noticed but maybe more important, a paradigm shift is also brewing in the structure of programming languages. Perhaps spurred by changes in hardware architecture, we are reaching away from the old, strictly time-bound expression-evaluation paradigm that has carried us so far, and looking for new means of expressiveness not constrained by over-rigid notions of computational time."
Thesis supervisor: Gerry Sussman.
Thesis committee: Guy Steele Jr., Patrick Winston, and Tom Knight.
Opening paragraph: *"REVOLUTION is at hand. The revolution everyone talks about is, of course, the parallel hardware revolution; less noticed but maybe more important, a paradigm shift is also brewing in the structure of programming languages. Perhaps spurred by changes in hardware architecture, we are reaching away from the old, strictly time-bound expression-evaluation paradigm that has carried us so far, and looking for new means of expressiveness not constrained by over-rigid notions of computational time."
[1] http://dspace.mit.edu/bitstream/handle/1721.1/49525/MIT-CSAI...