Hello SIGCIS Friends,
Lecture at the Computer History Museum next week — August 27, 2026.
7:00 p.m. Pacific time.
Topic: "The Silicon Gold Rush: How AI is Driving the Development of New Chips.”
Panel discussion with:
Bill Dally, Chief Scientist, NVIDIA.
Norm Jouppi, Google Fellow.
Dave Patterson, (Moderator), 2007 CHM Fellow and Pardee Professor of Computer Science Emeritus at UC Berkeley.
Description:
AI chips are the new frontier of computing: companies once known only for software—Google, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft—are now designing their own silicon to gain efficiency, control costs, and optimize large-scale model training and inference. The implications
extend far beyond technology. These in-house chips influence global data-center architectures, supply-chain strategy, and national competitiveness in a field now seen as geopolitically essential. The resulting competition influences global datacenter design,
supply chains, and national strategies, marking a major new chapter in the evolution of advanced computing and AI.
In-person attendance is SOLD OUT but ONLINE streaming is still available here:
Enjoy!
Dag
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Dag Spicer
Senior Curator
Computer History Museum
Editorial Board, IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
ACM History Committee
1401 N. Shoreline Blvd.
Mountain View CA 94043
“History is a vast early warning system.”
— Norman Cousins, American journalist (1915-1990).