Tentative schedule - schedule likely to change

The following readings must be done before the lecture for which they are listed.

Lecture / Date	Readings
1 / 26-Sep
2 / 1-Oct	Feynman, Ch. 1-2 (through p. 51).
3 / 3-Oct	Paul Cerruzi, Crossing the Divide: Architectural Issues and the Emergence of the Stored Program Computer Maurice Wilkes, EDSAC 2 John von Neumann, First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC (optional) M.D. Godfrey and D.F. Henry, The Computer as von Neumann Planned It (optional)
4 / 8-Oct	Gordon Moore, Cramming more components onto integrated circuits
5 / 10-Oct	John Hennessy and Norm Jouppi, Computer Technology and Architecture: An Evolving Interaction
BBQ / 14-Oct	William J. Dally, Me and My Grill: A Retrospective
6 / 15-Oct	ITRS 1999 roadmap
7 / 17-Oct	Michael Slater, The Microprocessor Today (1996)
8 / 22-Oct	Gordon Bell / Richard Sites / William Dally / David Ditzel / Yale Patt, Architects Look to Processors of Future (1996)
9 / 24-Oct	Aho, Sethi and Ullman, Ch. 1 (handed out in class)
10 / 29-Oct	Dennis Ritchie and Ken Thompson, The Unix Time-Sharing System
11 / 31-Oct	T.H. Myer and I.E. Sutherland, On the Design of Display Processors Kurt Akeley, Reality Engine Graphics
12 / 5-Nov	Thomas Sterling, How to Build A Hypercomputer
13 / 7-Nov	John Hennessy, Mark Heinrich, and Anoop Gupta, Cache-Coherent Distributed Shared Memory: Perspectives on Its Development and Future Challenges (1999)
14 / 12-Nov	W. Daniel Hillis and Guy L. Steele, Data Parallel Algorithms
15 / 14-Nov	William J. Dally et al, Retrospective: The J-Machine
16 / 19-Nov	John Villasenor and William H. Mangione-Smith, Configurable Computing
17 / 21-Nov	Christoforos Kozyrakis et al, Scalable Processors for the Billion Transistors Era: IRAM
18 / 26-Nov	Brucek Khailany et al, Imagine: Media Processing with Streams
19 / 28-Nov
20 / 3-Dec
21 / 5-Dec

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