This video was recorded at virtual Lambda Days conference, which took place on 16-19th February 2021 - https://www.lambdadays.org/lambdadays2021 More great virtual tech conferences - https://codesync.global​ --- Hardware as Software by Pat Hanrahan ABSTRACT We are entering a new era of computer architecture. Due to the end of Moore's Law and Dennard Scaling, the best way to build more efficient computers is to use domain-specific specialized architectures. Many systems companies such as Amazon, Apple, Google, and Facebook now have active hardware efforts. Unfortunately, building hardware is very difficult compared to software. But hardware is just software! In this talk I will talk about how to use functional programming to describe hardware. Thinking of hardware as software leads to better ways of building hardware. Thinking of software as hardware, leads to better way to program in general. --- SPEAKER - Pat Hanrahan Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering in the Computer Graphics Laboratory at Stanford University Pat Hanrahan is the CANON Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University where he teaches computer graphics. His current research involves graphics systems and architectures, hardware design tools, programming languages, image synthesis, and visualization. Early in his career, Pat worked at Pixar where he developed software for volume rendering and was the chief architect of the RenderMan(TM) Interface - a protocol that allows modeling programs to describe scenes to high quality rendering programs. In addition to being an early employee at PIXAR, he has founded three companies, PeakStream, BeBop, and Tableau, and has served on the technical advisory boards of NVIDIA, Exluna, Neoptica, VSee, Procedural, and SkyTree. --- Lambda Days Website: https://www.lambdadays.org​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/LambdaDays​