There is an interesting correlation between scheduling algorithms in operating systems and scheduling tasks in life. At a fundamental level, humans are no different from operating systems when it comes to scheduling activities. We have a brain, a computer has a processor. There are deadlines for the tasks which we need to finish, there are deadlines for the jobs which a processor needs to finish.
Turing Award acceptance speech by Dr. Fernando Corbató.
‘On Building Systems That Will Fail’
https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~kubitron/courses/cs162-F10/hand-outs/Corbato-turing.pdf
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