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Turing Award goes to Hennessy, Patterson for inventing RISC chips

Dave Patterson and John Hennessy, two San Francisco Bay Area professors now associated with Google, have won the computing industry’s top prize for revolutionizing processors with a technology called RISC. The pair won the 2017 A.M. Turing Award from the Association for Computing Machinery, a $1 million prize named after Alan Turing, the British researcher who famously helped crack German Enigma …

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Facebook and Zuckerberg still don’t know the right thing to do

Technically Incorrect offers a slightly twisted take on the tech that’s taken over our lives. Would quitting be the right thing to do? NurPhoto He twitched and he strained. He tried to stick to the script given him by his PR and legal handlers, even making his first remarks almost identical to the statement he’d published earlier on Facebook. He …

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