SC07 · Keynote, Plenary
Programming Bits and Atoms
The SC07 keynote, delivered by Neil Gershenfeld, who directs MIT's Center for Bits and Atoms. Its subject was the gap between how much raw performance high-performance machines had gained and how little the way we program them had changed — and, characteristically for Gershenfeld's work, the convergence of computation with physical fabrication.
- Session
- Keynote
- Event type
- Keynote, Plenary
- Time
- 8:30am - 10:00am
- Location
- Ballroom
- Speaker
- Prof. Neil Gershenfeld
- Session chair
- Becky Verastegui
The original abstract was published by the conference and is not reproduced here. It can be read on the archived SC07 programme page.
At the time of SC07 the fastest machine in the world was BlueGene/L at 478.200 TFlop/s.