Dan Luu • 11/23/2015

What's worked in Computer Science: 1999 v. 2015

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This article revisits a 1999 talk by computer scientist Butler Lampson on what technologies worked, didn't work, or were uncertain in computer systems research. It compares his original assessments (like Virtual Memory, RISC, and Parallelism) with their status in 2015, providing a historical perspective on the evolution and adoption of key computing concepts.

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