Author's Blogs
Posted July 18th 20110
Have you ever been confronted and confused by too many choices? Seven Deadly Sins? Thirty-one flavors? ...
Posted June 13th 20112
Saw a report that Apple is being sued by an Arizona company for infringing on their name iCloud. The CNet story and comments from the ZDNet reflection detail a few ...
Posted June 8th 20116
I was at the dentist last week for my bi-annual cleaning and checkup. Ultimately everything was fine, but during the exam the hygienist pulled out a new method of taking X-ray images of my teeth. It was digital (and it was the good kind of digital). I still needed the heavy lead sheet on my chest ...
Posted June 3rd 20112
I'm on the horns of a dilemma. Almost two years ago I ranted about never owning an e-book reader. Since then there have been several new products come on the market. The Kindle from Amazon.com has been ...
Posted May 18th 20111
Have you seen the article "Nine Tips to Parallel Programming Heaven"? This is excerpted advice from an interview of Dr ...
Posted May 17th 20110
When I was in 6th grade, I wrote out the number Googol ('1' followed by 100 zeroes). I cut and taped strips of paper together to be able to display it in a single long string. It was impressive at that time.I found another impressive number today reading through ...
Posted May 13th 20111
Intel has an electronic employee newsletter. We get company news, announcements, human interest stories, convention reports, etc. One other regular feature is a poll of employees on a wide range of topics. Things like how often we eat meat to our favorite movie genre to what kind of mobile device ...
Posted April 29th 20110
Do you have some coursework in parallel programming that other professors could make use of? Do you have some programming homework assignment that is to be solved with parallelism? Do you have some interesting lecture topic in parallelism that fits into a "standard" course within your department ( ...
Posted April 28th 20110
What's that word you use that means "to transform serial code into a parallel equivalent"? Obviously this will be a "new" word since I'm pretty sure the Romans and other Latin speakers had no concept of parallel computation and, therefore, we don't have some root word from that language on which ...
Posted April 21st 20110
The Intel Parallel Programming Multicore Community Meetup was held on 24 MAR 2011 in Santa Clara, CA. Kathy told me all about this event as it was being planned. She wanted me to go; I wanted to go, but the cost was going to be a bit steep in both time and money.
Now, looking at the video above ...