111u Computer Systems Research: Past and Future
u Butler Lampsonu People have been inventing new ideas in computer systems for nearly four decades,
usually driven by Moore’s law. Many of them have been spectacularly successful:
virtual memory, packet networks, objects, relational databases, and graphical user
interfaces are a few examples. Other promising ideas have not worked out:
capabilities, formal methods, distributed computing, and persistent objects. And the
fate of some is still in
