I hold a PhD in Awesomeness (it may say Computer Science on the certificate, a minor typo). I'm interested in all things compiler related.

Joined March 2009
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Alastair Murray retweeted
A great moment for open standards software: Intel has signed an agreement to acquire Codeplay to accelerate multi-architecture, multi-platform implementations of SYCL and oneAPI. community.intel.com/t5/Blogs…
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Alastair Murray retweeted
The Khronos Group Releases OpenCL 3.0 Provisional Specifications. Learn how OpenCL 3.0 realigns the OpenCL roadmap to enable developer-requested functionality and flexibility. khr.io/ocl3pressrelease
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19 Dec 2017
I totally get it. My answer would probably be "3d printed prosthetics". Fortunately other people are already doing this! x.com/Ruyk/status/9428700581…

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12 Sep 2017
We don't usually get to say who is using ComputeAorta technology, so it is exciting for this to be public. renesas.com/en-hq/about/pres…

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Alastair Murray retweeted
Alastair Murray from Codeplay talking about safety critical opencl. #rs4glasgow
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14 Aug 2017
History makes me assume that such preprints will be found to have a flaw, of course eventually there will be the paper without any flaw. x.com/harriesadam/status/897…

Anyone want to read through a 38 page paper with me? arxiv.org/abs/1708.03486
Some candidates have nothing substantial online, nothing through my letterbox, how could they possibly expect me to vote for them?
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11 Feb 2017
LinkedIn has more data on me that any other network, yet comes up with "Alastair, explore relevant opportunities with Financial Ombudsman".
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25 Jan 2017
Difficulty of functional safety requirements for self driving cars. Note the log scale! FIT = Failures in time. #HiPEAC17
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24 Jan 2017
Sarita Adve talking about memory models and heterogeneous systems. :) #HiPEAC17
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Alastair Murray retweeted
Replying to @alycm
@alycm from @codeplaysoft getting ready to start his key-note at the HLPGPU workshop. #HIPEAC17
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19 Jan 2017
I wonder if the Alastair Murray who made Amiga games gets occasional emails about compilers, just as I get occasional emails about his games
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Alastair Murray retweeted
We are very excited to have @alycm from @codeplaysoft giving the Keynote at the HLPGPU workshop on the 23rd January at @hipeac in Stockholm.
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29 Aug 2016
New Instruction Selection textbook briefly references my PhD research in the Open Problems section. :) x.com/llvmweekly/status/7702…

Instruction Selection: Principles, Methods, and Applications. Buy: springer.com/gp/book/9783319… Or free PDF from author: urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nb…
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27 Aug 2016
Been using mypy (types in Python) for a few hours now. Type checker just caught a concrete bug. Still a dynamic lang, but ~static types ...
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Alastair Murray retweeted
23 Jun 2016
New Talk: SYCL building blocks for C libraries meetingcpp.com/index.php/tv1… #cpp #cplusplus

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18 May 2016
Once again, the bar for compiler error messages is being raised. x.com/GregorySchier/status/7…

Thanks @elmlang for the most useful error message I've ever seen
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Alastair Murray retweeted
Delighted that 2 #PPar students have internships at @codeplaysoft! Check out our new page about student internships: edin.ac/24oBOre

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17 Mar 2016
Luke and Ewan from @codeplaysoft talking about building a RenderScript debugger in LLDB at #EuroLLVM16
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