BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:IEEE vTools.Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230312T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T010000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20230402T140313Z UID:BC977FE9-5AEC-43C3-B341-C37D783685C7 DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230323T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230323T210000 DESCRIPTION:IEEE Computer Society and GBC/ACM\n\nonline 7:00 PM\, Thursday\ , 23 March 2023\n\nSpecialization and the End of Moore's Law\n\nNeil Thomp son\, MIT\n\nRegister in advance for this webinar at https://acm-org.zoom. us/webinar/register/5016750322508/WN_2k-jR3BqSvihFD8EnJnIzQ\n\nAfter regis tering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information abou t joining the webinar.\n\nAbstract:\n\nFor decades\, Moore’s Law made th e economics of specialized chips unattractive because the upfront costs co uldn’t be justified when the alternative was fast-improving CPUs. As Moo re’s Law fades\, however\, this is changing. Not only is specialization becoming more economically attractive\, but it is now one of the best ways to get performance improvements for many applications. In this talk\, I w ill discuss (1) how the economics of specialization have changed\, (2) how specialization is fracturing computing in ways commonly seen in other tec hnologies\, and (3) how long we can expect the gains from specialization t o make up for the slowdown in Moore’s Law.\n\nBio:\n\nNeil Thompson is t he Director of the FutureTech research project at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab\, where his group studies the economic an d technical foundations of progress in computing. He is also a Principal I nvestigator at MIT’s Initiative on the Digital Economy.\n\nPreviously\, Neil was an Assistant Professor of Innovation and Strategy at the MIT Sloa n School of Management\, where he co-directed the Experimental Innovation Lab (X-Lab)\, and a Visiting Professor at the Laboratory for Innovation Sc ience at Harvard. He has advised businesses and government on the future o f Moore’s Law\, has been on National Academies panels on transformationa l technologies and scientific reliability\, and is part of the Council on Competitiveness’ National Commission on Innovation & Competitiveness Fro ntiers.\n\nHe has a PhD in Business and Public Policy from Berkeley\, wher e he also did Masters degrees in Computer Science and Statistics. He also has a masters in Economics from the London School of Economics\, and under graduate degrees in Physics and International Development. Prior to academ ia\, he worked at organizations such as Lawrence Livermore National Labora tory\, Bain and Company\, the United Nations\, the World Bank\, and the Ca nadian Parliament.\n\nThis joint meeting of the Boston Chapter of the IEEE Computer Society and GBC/ACM will be online only due to the COVID-19 lock down.\n\nUp-to-date information about this and other talks is available on line at https://ewh.ieee.org/r1/boston/computer/. You can sign up to recei ve updated status information about this talk and informational emails abo ut future talks at https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/ieee-cs\, our self-administered mailing list.\n\nCo-sponsored by: gbc/acm \, Orange Coun ty Computer Society Chapter\n\nSpeaker(s): Neil Thompson\, \n\nVirtual: ht tps://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/355309 LOCATION:Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/355309 ORGANIZER:p.mager@computer.org SEQUENCE:1 SUMMARY:Specialization and the End of Moore's Law URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/355309 X-ALT-DESC:Description: <br /><h2>IEEE Computer Society and GBC/ACM</h2>\n< h4>online 7:00 PM\, Thursday\, 23 March 2023</h4>\n<h4>Specialization and the End of Moore's Law</h4>\n<h4>Neil Thompson\, MIT</h4>\n<h4>Register in advance for this webinar at https://acm-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/5016 750322508/WN_2k-jR3BqSvihFD8EnJnIzQ</h4>\n<p>After registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webi nar.</p>\n<p>Abstract:</p>\n<p class="norm10">&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>For decades\ , Moore&rsquo\;s Law made the economics of specialized chips unattractive because the upfront costs couldn&rsquo\;t be justified when the alternativ e was fast-improving CPUs. As Moore&rsquo\;s Law fades\, however\, this is changing. Not only is specialization becoming more economically attractiv e\, but it is now one of the best ways to get performance improvements for many applications. In this talk\, I will discuss (1) how the economics of specialization have changed\, (2) how specialization is fracturing comput ing in ways commonly seen in other technologies\, and (3) how long we can expect the gains from specialization to make up for the slowdown in Moore& rsquo\;s Law.</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>Bio: </p>\n<p>Neil Thompson is the Director of the FutureTech research project at MIT&rsquo\;s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab\, where h is group studies the economic and technical foundations of progress in com puting. He is also a Principal Investigator at MIT&rsquo\;s Initiative on the Digital Economy.</p>\n<p>Previously\, Neil was an Assistant Professor of Innovation and Strategy at the MIT Sloan School of Management\, where h e co-directed the Experimental Innovation Lab (X-Lab)\, and a Visiting Pro fessor at the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard. He has advised businesses and government on the future of Moore&rsquo\;s Law\, has been on National Academies panels on transformational technologies and scientif ic reliability\, and is part of the Council on Competitiveness&rsquo\; Nat ional Commission on Innovation &amp\; Competitiveness Frontiers.</p>\n<p>H e has a PhD in Business and Public Policy from Berkeley\, where he also di d Masters degrees in Computer Science and Statistics. He also has a master s in Economics from the London School of Economics\, and undergraduate deg rees in Physics and International Development. Prior to academia\, he work ed at organizations such as Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory\, Bain and Company\, the United Nations\, the World Bank\, and the Canadian Parli ament.</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p> \n<p>&nbsp\;</p>\n<p class="norm10">This joint meeting of the Boston Chapt er of the IEEE Computer Society and GBC/ACM will be online only due to the COVID-19 lockdown.</p>\n<p>Up-to-date information about this and other ta lks is available online at https://ewh.ieee.org/r1/boston/computer/. You c an sign up to receive updated status information about this talk and infor mational emails about future talks at https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/list info/ieee-cs\, our self-administered mailing list.</p>\n<p>&nbsp\;</p> END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR