DEDICATORY ADDRESS

Dedicatory essay on John C. Fletcher.

Two-Level Address Storage and Address Prediction

The amount of information recorded in the prediction tables of the proposed address predictors turns out to be comparable to the current on-chip cache sizes; for instance, a last-address predictor that records 4.096 64-bit effective addresses uses a 32 Kbytes storage space. Area cost of address predictors is proportional to address width. To reduce their area cost, we will take advantage of th...

Keynote Address

The World Health Organization estimates that malaria annually causes hundreds of millions of illnesses, and more than half a million deaths. Surely these transaction costs of mosquito bites vastly exceed the value of the blood actually taken. In payment instruments, of course, a major goal is to reduce transaction costs, and intuitively cutting those costs seems especially urgent when they are ...

Valedictory Address

sense of my many shortcomings from my own ideals and from the high standard set before me by the fourteen Presidents under whom I have sat since I joined this Society in 1888. My tenure of office has coincided with what may be called a period of reconstruction following on the suspension of our activities for five years owing to the Great War. This reconstruction, or resuscitation, after such a...

Valedictory Address

my name to the list of your Presidents will endure as long as this Society itself. Again would I express my heartfelt thanks, all the more because exceptional circumstances are connected therewith. In your choice of President you went far afield. For better or for worse, after my transference from Edinburgh to Aberdeen thirty-four years ago, my connection with the Society dwindled into that of ...