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So now both H & P working at Google? (Though I don't know enough about corporate board stuff to tell if chairman is "working for")

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A "Board of Directors" is the executive unit of a publicly owned company [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_company]. It is separate from Google's internal corporate hierarchy.

Pretty crazy! Hopefully they get Patterson to work on some novel computer architectures. TPUs are very cool but they are not for consumers.

I know what you mean, but e.g. every time the Google Assistant talks to you, the consumer, you're using TPUs.

https://deepmind.com/blog/wavenet-launches-google-assistant/

They're getting there: https://cloud.google.com/tpu/

Who are "H & P"? I haven't been able to track down who the P is.

Patterson. Computer Architecture is their landmark book

To me, Patterson is the real superstar of the duo.

Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach is a seminal text in computer science by John L. Hennessy and David A. Patterson.

From what little I've read of it for my classes in the subject, it's well written and accessible.

Thanks!

I'm a CS PhD student, but my undergrad and master's are in physics, so I didn't go through all of the same steps many did in their CS curricula.

It is usually in graduate courses, I guess maybe some better schools' undergrad programs.

Agree with gp, very well written text. Probably the only class textbook that I have actually read entirely. (10 years ago or whatever)

I’m sure H&P is the CLRS of architecture.

He was also President of Stanford for a bunch of years.

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