HiPEAC 2020 keynote 1: James Mickens on software-defined microarchitecture

'Hardware community, you are in crisis.' Harvard Professor James Mickens takes us on a journey from despair to enlightenment, where the promise of software-defined microarchitecture can help the hardware community as software-defined networks once transformed the networking community. Aware that predicting the future is fraught with peril, he nonetheless persists in doing so, 'because I am an American, and I lead by example'.

[@unfathomablej]

James Mickens is a national treasure.

[@goldnutter412]

Funny af ! this guy is awesome

[@khhnator]

damn, that's one tough crowd. usually every single James Mickens presentation has people dying in laughter

[@Maxible]

James Mickens is a National Treasure. Without a doubt one of my favorite people in the computing world. Exceptional presentation.👍👍

[@geminiimatt9295]

Every time i find a James video i learn and laugh equally hard. Was the audience not alive or just great good at keeping a poker face. Are you not entertained?

[@evilynux]

Came here to say thus. Tough crowd!

[@drivers99]

Most likely the audience doesn’t have a microphone recording near them so you get the perception that they’re silent.

[@HiPEAC]

We think this is what must have happened. There was definitely laughter at the time!

[@waneck]

Wow, tough crowd

[@definitelynotofficial7350]

I am very annoyed by the lack of laughter in the audience.

[@manuela7399]

Great keynote, terrible editing.

[@XueTech]

Cell Broadband Engine had it right 15 years ago. With some modern refinements, it is the architecture of the future.

[@goldnutter412]

30:22 weeeell we got there first so we can do whatever the fk we want !

[@laykefindley6604]

If you understand enough to grasp what this talk is saying, then you understand how utterly flawed this entire system is.

[@dmitriykarbovskiy1790]

Reality: programmable PCU gets accessed by a malware, CPU dies in agony. No, please no.