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August 20, 2007 12:05 PM PDT

Live from Hot Chips 19: Keynote 1, Vernor Vinge

by Peter Glaskowsky

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(This is the second post in a series written "live" from Hot Chips 19 at Stanford University.)

Vernor Vinge is best known as a science-fiction writer, but he's also a computer scientist; he retired from his professorship at San Diego State University five years ago. (I mentioned his participation in a panel at Siggraph earlier this month here.)

Vinge's talk was titled "Digital Gaia," a reference to the Gaia Hypothesis. (I see Vinge used the same title for a January, 2000 essay in Wired, here.) Vinge described several scenarios for the future of the integrated-circuit industry, building on some ... Read more

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Tags:: Hot Chips,; Stanford,; Vernor Vinge,; Digital Gaia

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Silicon Valley-based computer architect and chip analyst Peter N. Glaskowsky attends a variety of industry conferences throughout the year to meet with industry thought leaders and dig into the future of computing technology. In Speeds and Feeds, he analyzes trends in system architecture and interface design, as well as market and political pressures surrounding those trends. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure.

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