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50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH

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A recording of the University of Utah's CS 50th anniversary, featuring Ivan Sutherland on Single Flux Quantum electronics.

Thu, March 23 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. MDT Agenda: -Welcome: Mary Hall, Director, University of Utah Kahlert School of Computing -Panel: Leading the Way in Computer Science Education. Emeritus Professors Dave Hanscom and Joe Zachary, moderated by Erin Parker -Panel: Foundations for Creativity: Utah Computer Science, the Early Years. Chuck Seitz (formerly Myricom, Caltech, Utah), Al Davis (NVIDIA; formerly, HP, Utah) and Duane Call (formerly Vinca Corporation, BYU), moderated by Rajeev Balasubramonian -Keynote: The future and promise of technology - innovations from extraordinary women. Telle Whitney, Co-Founder, Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing and Former CEO of Anita Borg Institute - Lunch - -Keynote: Utah and the Frontiers of Computing. Steve Parker, Vice President of Professional Graphics, NVIDIA -Panel: Impact of Networking Research, from ARPANET to Emulab & Beyond. David Andersen (CMU) and Cody Cutler (Amazon), moderated by Rob Ricci -Future Video: Kahlert School of Computing assistant professors talk about what the future holds for the field -Keynote: Single Flux Quantum (SFQ) Digital Electronics (Digital circuits totally distinct from Quantum Computing). Ivan Sutherland, 1968-74 Utah Professor, 1988 Turing Award Winner

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What people say. Highly recommended for Ivan Sutherland's fascinating presentation on Single Flux Quantum digital electronics and computing history.

daharton Hacker News • Recommends

On “How the Computer Graphics Industry Got Started at the University of Utah”

…evolution because we’re not paying attention to SQF. 2 The talk is awesome and worth watching. Anyway, I feel like this was a sneak peek into one of the biggest reasons why that early graphics team was so successful, Ivan’s amazing. Combined with some other magic ingredients, their environment was special, and I think, sadly, unreproducible. 1 link to this video (For Ivan’s talk, scroll to 5:50:00 - that’s 5 hours and fifty minutes in.) 2 link…
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On “Single Flux Quantum (SFQ) Digital Electronics (2023)”

I think it would have helped if you linked to the timestamp1 where he started talking to encourage discussion, 5h47m in for anyone wanting to watch it. I recommend at 2x. It's a very interesting presentation, from the history to the mechanics of how it works, to the possibilities. 1 link to this video It's interesting to hear about how it originated in a research group in Russia led by KK Likharev, and how the students were poached to the USA and are now at retirement age there. That it was funded by the USSR to out compete IBM superconducting and Sutherland thinks2 his group did with SFQ . 2 link to this video Sutherland was interested in wafer probers for the purpose of SFQ research that work at superco…
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On “Gordon Moore, Intel Co-Founder, Dies at 94”

2500 points. Wow. I haven't seen upvotes like this... ever. Unmentioned so far- I was watching the University of Utah's 50th Anniversary of CS sessions1, and- apologies I forget who- someone mentioned that it was Carver Mead who largely promoted "Moore's Law" as an idea. Just some random trivia, to highlight how such a strong piece of identity around such a more dynamic & wide-ranging man came about. Hopefully not the "Douglas Engelbart: creator of the mouse" identity. 1 link to this video
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daharton Hacker News • Mentions

On “Comparing the 1970's Cray-1 supercomputer against the Raspberry Pi”

My source for the story is indirect, via Steve Parker, who’s worked with Turner. link to this video Scrub to 3:52:19 for the Turner Whitted story. BTW, mostly unrelated, but scrub that video to 5:47:10 for an amazing talk by Ivan Sutherland (“father of computer graphics”) that is not about graphics (he politely refuses to talk about graphics anymore :P), but about the active research he’s been doing (at 85 years old) into Single Quantum Flux circuits (an alternative to CMOS). Also- Jim Clark at 4:48:40 Jim’s idea you mention is still correct & compatible with Turner’s idea. Jim’s point is that we only need to render finite pixels. You might need an x-factor more triangles than pixels because of samplin…
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On “The Race to 2nm: RISC-V Chips in Japan – By Dr. Ian Cutress”

By 2030 we will have progressed to a few atoms per transistor in bulk CMOS, to wafer scale integration 3 and probably replaced most metal wires with free space optics 2. We will see the first mass-manufactured SFQ 1 and RSFQ 4 superconducting Josephson junctions. Maybe we will see the first carbon nanotubes and superconducting circuits 5. 1 link to this video 2 link 3 link 4 Rapid single flux quantum link 5 link
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