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Sally McKee, who coined the term "the memory wall", has died

https://www.online-tribute.com/SallyMcKee
42•deater•2h ago

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akkartik•1h ago
My dissertation was on the memory wall, and I never heard of her :/ RIP
DespairYeMighty•1h ago
She was a CS PhD and somewhat itinerant professor with a long career who wrote a prominent CS paper about computer memory, Hitting the Memory Wall: Implications of the Obvious

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/216585.216588

on her obituary page, you will see a prominent "Memory Wall" link that is NOT a reference to her paper, but a place for sharing your thoughts about her life

deater•1h ago
you wouldn't believe how many people cite that paper as "Wulf et al." when that's practically more characters than saying "Wulf and McKee"

I notice these things a bit more as she was my PhD thesis advisor

deater•1h ago
There are probably so many stories out there of interesting things she did. A few are breifly referenced at her old website here: https://web.archive.org/web/20060116130917/http://www.csl.co...

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Sally McKee, who coined the term "the memory wall", has died

https://www.online-tribute.com/SallyMcKee
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