Thermal Design Power

The links Phani pointed to has interesting links to look. Here is a wiki entry on what Thermal Design Point (TDP) means? And here is yet another link on Athlon 64 Processor.

20 years of PLDI (1979-1999)

Programming Language Design and Implementation is a top notch conference in programming languages and compilers. Here is a link to the most influential PLDI papers between 1979 to 1999. We shall try to study as many papers as possible from this list.

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/mckinley/20-years.html

You should also go through and pick any paper that sounds interesting for presenting in the class.