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Introduction to Computer Science

Thought Provokers

Introduction to Computer ScienceThought Provokers

Thought Provokers

1 .
What are the desired characteristics of a good computer system, aside from speed?
2 .
When a company decides to design a new processor to compete in the market, what are the criteria that this company needs to tackle to be competitive? Be careful—speed is not enough.
3 .
Consider our startup company that is 100% committed to leveraging innovative technologies as a business growth facilitator. Describe at a high-level how it could combine the use of Unicode and Large Language Models to translate documents in any language. What would be some of the limitations of such a solution using existing technology?
4 .
With several levels of cache, the data in L1 is a subset of the data in L2 which is a subset of L3. This is called the inclusion property. This makes the data a bit redundant and loses chip area to store repetitive data. Do we gain anything from violating this inclusion property? If yes, what do we gain? What are the challenges? If no, why not?
5 .
Now that Moore’s Law is coming to an end, how do you think the computer industry can get more performance from computer systems? Suggest several solutions.
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