🚀 go-pugleaf

Ah, good old Berserkeley (my alma mater)!  John Kubiatowicz writes:

> This year, the International Symposium on Architectural Support
> for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS-VIII)
> is devoting a special session to new ideas.  Take a look at the
> call for submissions:

>  http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~kubitron/asplos98

From the above Web site:

     The field of computer architecture is (some might say)
     desperately in need of new ideas.  [...]

     The quantitative approach to computer architecture
     has been the backbone of our field for a long time.
     Unfortunately, it has also served to discourage new ideas.

     [...] Here is the one venue in which radicalness
     (although not "flakiness") will be rewarded.

> If you have a serious idea that you think is a whole new paradigm,   
> consider submitting!
    
> John Kubiatowicz
> University of California at Berkeley                

Submitting radical ideas to Berkeley is like carrying coals to
Newcastle, but LET'S MAKE A COMPUTER IN THE IMAGE OF THE BRAIN:

  Hearing    Vision    Concepts Volition Emotion   Motor Output
 /iiiiiii\  /!i!i!i!\                             /YYYYYYYYYYYY\
| ||||||| || ||||||| |   T                       | |||||||||||| |
| ||||||| || | ___ | |   +                       | |||||||||||| |
| ||||||| ||  /old\  |   +                       | |S|||||||||| |
| ||||||| || (image)-|---+_                      | |H|||||||||| |
| ||||||| ||  \___/  |  /  \                     | |A|||||||||| |
| ||||||| ||         | (idea)               __   | |K|||||||||| |
| | ||||| ||         |  \__/---------------/  \  | |E|||R|||||| |
| |d------||---------|---+        ____    (fear)-|--*|||U|||||| |
| ||||o|| ||  _____  |   +-------/    \----\__/  | |||||N|||P|| |
| ||g|||| || / re- \-|---+      / de-  \---------|------*|||E|| |
| || |||| ||/entrant\|   +     (  ci-   )        | |||||||||T|| |
| ||||||| ||\ image /|   +      \ sion /---------|----------*|| |
| ||||||| || \_____/ |   +       \____/          | |||||||||||| |

Arthur T. Murray (mentifex@scn.org) http://www.scn.org/~mentifex/