Anant Agarwal, a professor in the MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Department, said computers need to be more like humans if they’re going to be able to take advantage of engineering advances.
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«We need to rethink compilers, operating systems, architectures, how we program computers; The first thing you want to do is to have applications be able to communicate their goals to the operating system,» Agarwal said. «What we need is self-aware computation.»
That would be like having an application «tell» an operating system what it needs in terms of processing power, and then having the OS balance that need with the needs of other applications running at the same time.
Agarwal noted that a human heart can communicate exactly what the body needs at any given point in time function optimally.
«If you’re a good runner, your body temperature actually goes down the longer you run,» he said. «If you’re a computer, the longer you run the higher the temperature goes. So the question is, why can’t computers become more like humans?»
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