talks

Block diagram of the NVIDIA Parker SoC with many heterogeneous processor clusters

Classic of the Week: It's Time for Operating Systems to Rediscover Hardware (Timothy Roscoe)

Timothy Roscoe (ETH Zurich, co-lead of the Barrelfish multikernel and the Enzian research computer) gave the joint OSDI/ATC keynote in 2021 and announced up front that he’d chosen the “keynote as therapy” format. What he unloads is a simple argument that keeps getting more true: the machine Linux thinks it runs on doesn’t exist, the thing actually managing a modern computer was never designed by anyone, and the systems research community has mostly stopped looking....

Bret Victor stating his principle: creators need an immediate connection to what they create

Classic of the Week: Inventing on Principle — Bret Victor

Fourteen years on, this is still the talk that most reliably rewires how an engineer thinks about their own work. It is remembered for the live-coding demos — and those demos did seed a decade of tooling, from hot reload to Swift Playgrounds to every notebook environment you use. But the demos are the setup. The talk’s actual argument arrives in the last fifteen minutes, and it is not about programming at all....