Computing With Art Computerphile

Summary

After a recent collaboration with an Abstraction is at the heart of everything to do with RISC processors kept things simple, but when do you need to make your hardware more complicated and when can you leave it ... They're called 'Finite State Automata" and occupy the centre of Chomsky's Hierarchy - Professor Brailsford explains the ultimate ... IP addresses explained - what do these mysterious numbers and dots mean and how are they used? Richard Mortier explains the ... Delving into the various timescales I hereby your Email is an unwelcome distraction, so CS legend Don Knuth simply doesn't use it. He hasn't done since 1990. Brady asked him ... Why do we have 8 bits in a byte? Professor Brailsford on the origins of the humble byte. Why Use Binary? Ray tracing is massive and gives realistic graphics in games & movies but how does it work? Lewis Stuart explains. What does a GPU do differently to a CPU and why don't we use them for everything? First of a series from Jem Davies, VP of ... You can't beat physics. Why the chip manufacturers are heading for a wall. We asked nano-scientist Phil Moriarty Professor of ... What is CUDA and why do we need it? An Nvidia invention, its used in many aspects of parallel How did punch card systems work? Professor Brailsford delves further into the era of mainframe Bubbles in the pipeline? Some of the basic operations at the heart of the CPU explained by Dr Steve Bagley. EXTRA BITS: ...