[keynote speaker from UCB] This was one of the keynote talks from Usenix 2008. Interesting keynote, talking about how computers aren't getting significantly faster anymore, they're just adding more cores. So, we'll need to be able to handle parallel programming, if we want to gain any benefits from all the cores. New programs could be written to see benefits, but the ones most people use now, will not. I don't agree with all the points in the talk, but the fact that the hardware is going in this direction is indisputable.

Note that the Usenix sketches are actually sketches in pencil, so they were scanned in grayscale, which kind of looks...different...sketchy, if you will. images/Drawings/Sketches/patterson.png