Radio Reg: Talk to a computing legend like Dave Patterson, and you're bound to happen on some unexpected discoveries.The Berkeley professor and RISC/RAID pioneer this week joined Chris Hipp and me for Episode 9 of Semi-Coherent Computing. Patterson surprised the heck out of us with some off topic news that Google is paying for employees to obtain their commercial pilot licenses. Does the ad broker want to put its data centers closer to satellites by flying them around non-stop? Perhaps.We also coaxed a couple of on-topic scoops out of Patterson. For example, Microsoft's Chuck Thacker - he of the Alto - has teamed with Berkeley on a multi-threaded software research effort. The partnership will see Microsoft buy and even build a number of Berkeley's RAMP boards.Next month, Patterson and his cohorts at Berkeley plan to reveal even fresher multi-core research by discussing their work on the mobile computing front. We'll have news on that project when it arrives.Show Page
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