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

(online-tribute.com)

30 points | by deater 2 hours ago ago

4 comments

  • DespairYeMighty an hour 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 an hour 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 an hour 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...

  • akkartik an hour ago

    My dissertation was on the memory wall, and I never heard of her :/ RIP