Systems lunch g uest speaker Charles E. Leiserson t omorrow @ 12noon in CS 105 with food provided. Speaker: Charles E. Leiserson, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at MIT CSAIL Title: The Resurgence of Software Performance Engineering Abstract: Today, most application developers write code without much regard for how quickly it will run. Moreover, once the code is written, it is rare for it to be reengineered to run faster. But the end of Moore's Law has instigated a resurgence of interest in software performance engineering, the art/science of making code run fast. Moore's Law is the technology trend that has, until recently, relentlessly doubled the number of transistors on a semiconductor chip every two years. With the attenuation of this major source of computing performance, application programmers will increasingly find themselves turning to software performance engineering in order to develop innovative products and applications.