50TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT AT THE UNIVERSITY OF UTAH

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rt12121212 · 2024-02 · Strong recommendation

I think it would have helped if you linked to the timestamp[1] where he started talking to encourage discussion, 5h47m in for anyone wanting to watch it. I recommend at 2x. It's a very interesting presentation, from the history to the mechanics of how it works, to the possibilities. [1] [VIDEO] It's interesting to hear about how it originated in a research group in Russia led by KK Likharev, and how the students were poached to the USA and are now at retirement age there. That it was funded by the USSR to out compete IBM superconducting and Sutherland thinks[2] his group did with SFQ . [2] [VIDEO] Sutherland was interested in wafer probers for the purpose of SFQ research that work at superconducting temperatures, he asked where he could get one and was told four were shipped to China[3]. Relevant relating to how USA is falling behind possibly, and there are sanctions on nVidia sending the latest in GPU/compute to China, but this happened. [3] [VIDEO] One of the most interesting topics I have been introduced to and a great presentation and Q&A (watched at 2x speed of course) on it.

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dahart · 2023-06 · Strong recommendation

Recently Utah had a small commemorative conference where the photo in the picture was taken. Ivan Sutherland attended, and gave what I thought was the best talk, about nothing to do with graphics. He’s actively doing research on Single Quantum Flux circuits at 85 years old! [1] He’s trying to spread the word that the US is about to miss out on the next hardware revolution because we’re not paying attention to SQF. [2] The talk is awesome and worth watching. Anyway, I feel like this was a sneak peek into one of the biggest reasons why that early graphics team was so successful, Ivan’s amazing. Combined with some other magic ingredients, their environment was special, and I think, sadly, unreproducible. [1] [VIDEO] (For Ivan’s talk, scroll to 5:50:00 - that’s 5 hours and fifty minutes in.) [2] [LINK]

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morphle · 2024-03 · Reference

By 2030 we will have progressed to a few atoms per transistor in bulk CMOS, to wafer scale integration [3] and probably replaced most metal wires with free space optics [2]. We will see the first mass-manufactured SFQ [1] and RSFQ [4] superconducting Josephson junctions. Maybe we will see the first carbon nanotubes and superconducting circuits [5]. [1] [VIDEO] [2] [LINK] [3] [LINK] [4] Rapid single flux quantum [LINK] [5] [LINK]

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