With news of Intel's acquisition of Altera, I thought HN would enjoy this excellent lecture on the use of reconfigurable architectures for the next step in improving computing efficiency. I watch this every couple of years and consistently find it exciting.<p>Although we're very heavily invested in the current paradigm, maybe with Intel's weight behind Altera and some popular trends in programming languages, we'll start to see more of a push to move beyond the Von Neumann model.