Dertouzos lecture series speaker Bill Dally, also chairman of Stanford University’s Department of Computer Science, listens to a question from Course VI Professor Anant Agarwal (right) after his talk last Thursday, Oct. 31. In the talk, Dally argued that managing communication, rather than increasing raw horsepower, is the key to fast computation.

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Dertouzos lecture series speaker Bill Dally, also chairman of Stanford University’s Department of Computer Science, listens to a question from Course VI Professor Anant Agarwal (right) after his talk last Thursday, Oct. 31. In the talk, Dally argued that managing communication, rather than increasing raw horsepower, is the key to fast computation. Omari Stephens—The Tech