A new radio interview on trends in the energy efficiency of computing
The Canadian Broadcasting Company just posted my interview for their “Spark” radio show, which is “an ongoing conversation about technology and culture, hosted by Nora Young”. It talks about our work on trends in the energy efficiency of computing over the past six decades, which I wrote about here and here.
Unfortunately, the tagline from the announcer at the end incorrectly indicates that I called the long term trends (doubling of energy efficiency every year and a half) “Koomey’s law”, instead of noting that it was MIT’s Technology Review that popularized the term in their recent article. And the first person to use the term publicly was Max Henrion of Lumina Systems at a talk he gave at the Uptime Institute Symposium in 2010. I’ve asked the producer to correct that in the web version. Ah well..
