FrontMatter -- Preface -- Acknowledgment of Reviewers -- Contents -- Abstract -- Summary -- 1 The Need for Continued Performance Growth -- 2 What Is Computer Performance? -- 3 Power Is Now Limiting Growth in Computing Performance -- 4 The End of Programming as We Know It -- 5 Research, Practice, and Education to Meet Tomorrow's Performance Needs -- Appendixes -- Appendix A: A History of Computer Performance -- Appendix B: Biographies of Committee Members and Staff -- Appendix C: Reprint of Gordon E. Moore's "Cramming More Components onto Integrated Circuits" -- Appendix D: Reprint of Robert H. Dennard's "Design of Ion-Implanted MOSFET's with Very Small Physical Dimensions".