James Mickens!!! Oh my gosh, I am so excited to see you doing this AMA. First off, I would just like to say that whenever I start to really really hate my job, I re-read The Night Watch and it never fails to make me laugh to the point of tears. So thank you for bringing this pearl of joy (along with your other writing - also pearls of joy) into creation. Thank you also for being an inspiration to minorities in the field - it does make a difference.
I have two questions, the first is: are there any other contenders for funniest person in Microsoft research?
Secondly, I'm looking to pursue a PhD in HPC in the near future. do you have any thoughts about where you see parallelism going in the future? I feel like there's a bit of mad panic going on in the field right now and I'm curious from a corporate research perspective if there was much you could elaborate on about what the biggest hopes and worries are
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James Mickens!!! Oh my gosh, I am so excited to see you doing this AMA. First off, I would just like to say that whenever I start to really really hate my job, I re-read The Night Watch and it never fails to make me laugh to the point of tears. So thank you for bringing this pearl of joy (along with your other writing - also pearls of joy) into creation. Thank you also for being an inspiration to minorities in the field - it does make a difference.
I have two questions, the first is: are there any other contenders for funniest person in Microsoft research?
Secondly, I'm looking to pursue a PhD in HPC in the near future. do you have any thoughts about where you see parallelism going in the future? I feel like there's a bit of mad panic going on in the field right now and I'm curious from a corporate research perspective if there was much you could elaborate on about what the biggest hopes and worries are
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