CONTENTS

INTERVIEW

A CONVERSATION WITH KURT AKELEY AND PAT HANRAHAN 11

Pixar’s Tom Duff talks with two graphics-

computing veterans about the evolution of GPUs and

how CPUs have failed to keep up.

DEPARTMENTS

PUBLISHER’S NOTE 7

Going Digital

James Maurer, ACM Queue

KODE VICIOUS 8

Latency and Livelocks

George V. Neville-Neil, Consultant

BOOK REVIEWS 66

CALENDAR 68

CURMUDGEON 72

Solomon’s Sword Beats Occam’s Razor