6.172 | Fall 2018 | Undergraduate

Performance Engineering of Software Systems

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Lecture 20: Speculative Parallelism & Leiserchess

Description: Prof. Leiserson discusses speculative parallelism and its applications in parallel alpha-beta search and jamboree search. The lecture ends with a discussion of computer-chess programs.

Instructor: Charles Leiserson

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