May 9, 2007 lecture by Catherine Crawford for the Stanford University Computer Systems Colloquium (EE 380). Catherine reviews a history of programming paradigms and models, as well as workloads and subsequent programming issues from current market growth segments; she combines this review with a software view of technology and system advances to develop a sense of "what's missing" in current art for developers to engage in pragmatic parallelism in application development. EE 380 | Computer Systems Colloquium: http://www.stanford.edu/class/ee380/ Stanford Computer Systems Laboratory: http://csl.stanford.edu/ Stanford Center for Professional Development: http://scpd.stanford.edu/ Stanford University Channel on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/stanforduniversity/