Chris Lattner: Compilers, LLVM, Swift, TPU, and ML Accelerators

Chris Lattner is a senior director at Google working on several
projects including CPU, GPU, TPU accelerators for TensorFlow, Swift
for TensorFlow, and all kinds of machine learning compiler magic
going on behind the scenes. He is one of the top experts in the
world on compiler technologies, which means he deeply understands
the intricacies of how hardware and software come together to
create efficient code. He created the LLVM compiler infrastructure
project and the CLang compiler. He led major engineering efforts at
Apple, including the creation of the Swift programming language. He
also briefly spent time at Tesla as VP of Autopilot Software during
the transition from Autopilot hardware 1 to hardware 2, when Tesla
essentially started from scratch to build an in-house software
infrastructure for Autopilot. If you would like to get more
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