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• Read Kung's 1982 'Why Systolic Architectures?' directly and confirm the cardiac/heart-pumping quote attributed to it
  capture promoted Tier 1 2026-08-12 · systolic-array, kung, etymology, verification, quote-provenance
• Kung's 1982 paper independently frames the whole systolic dataflow — not just the memory — as analogous to blood circulating through the heart
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-08-12 · systolic-array, kung, cardiac-metaphor, etymology, hardware
• Myth ledger: "the function of a processor is analogous to that of the heart... every processor regularly pumps data in and out" — genuine Kung & Leiserson (1978), routinely misattributed to Kung 1982
  note budding Tier 1 2026-08-12 · myth, systolic-array, kung, cardiac-metaphor, quote-provenance
• Systolic arrays (Kung & Leiserson, 1978) take their name from cardiac systole — Kung's 1982 paper likens the array's memory, not its processors, to a pulsing heart
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-12 · systolic-array, hardware, history-of-computing, cardiac-metaphor, etymology
• Read Kung's 1982 'Why Systolic Architectures?' directly and confirm the cardiac/heart-pumping quote attributed to it
  question answered 2026-07-12 · systolic-array, kung, etymology, verification, hop