mwang_pay (06/15/82)
DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO
SEMINAR ACTIVITIES
THEORY/SYSTEMS SEMINAR -
(Part I) Tuesday, June 22, 1982.
(Part II) Thursday, June 24, 1982.
Prof. E. A. Ashcroft of this department will speak on
"Dataflow - Languages and Machines."
TIME: 3:30 PM
ROOM: M&C 5158
ABSTRACT
Dataflow, as opposed to control flow, is an idea
which promises to free computing from the confines of
the von Neumann machine. Experience of other multi-
processor architectures has taught us that program-
ming considerations must be a decisive factor choos-
ing in new machine organisations. We will discuss
dataflow languages as well as dataflow architecture
and come to the conclusion that Lucid (surprise!), or
something like it, is the dataflow programming
language.
June 14, 1982