“我们所做的,是通过把各种系统的性能和性能测量作为根本依据,把计算机架构从一门艺术转变为更像工程的学科。(We tried to convert computer architecture from an art to something that looked more like an engineering discipline by using performance measurements as the fundamental thing.)”— John Hennessy
“AI 大概是数十年来出现的最重要的科研工具……它将触及几乎每一个科学领域。(AI is the most important scientific research tool to come along in decades... it's going to touch virtually every scientific field.)”— John Hennessy
“我们仍然需要人在回路中审视 AI 的结果并与之协作,因此需要能自如地与 AI 共事的科学家。(We're going to have to continue to have humans in the loop looking at AI results and working together.)”— John Hennessy
“要真正实现我们认可的 AGI,我们必须拥有比现在更好的世界模型——能理解物理世界、包含时间观念的模型。(To get something we really feel is AGI, we're going to have to have a better notion of world models... that understand the physical world and have a notion of time.)”— John Hennessy
“在 AI 时代,统计学已成为一门极其重要的数学分支,所以去学一些统计学吧。(In the age of AI, statistics has become an incredibly important branch of mathematics. So go take some statistics.)”— John Hennessy
术语 / 人物
John Hennessy(约翰·轩尼诗) — 计算机科学家、企业家,2017 年图灵奖得主,斯坦福大学第十任校长(2000–2016),现任 Alphabet(谷歌母公司)董事长,RISC 架构与 MIPS 的奠基者。
RISC(精简指令集计算机) — Reduced Instruction Set Computer,用更简单的指令集提升性能、降低成本与设计时间的处理器架构;如今每年生产的逾 160 亿颗微处理器中约 99% 基于该思路。
MIPS — Microprocessor without Interlocked Pipeline Stages,Hennessy 团队于斯坦福开发的 RISC 原型芯片,后创办 MIPS Computer Systems 将其商业化。
David Patterson — 加州大学伯克利分校计算机科学荣休教授,Hennessy 的长期合作者,二人共享 2017 年图灵奖并合著两部经典计算机体系结构教材。