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.