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Amy Barton (Intel)

I'm the New Media Communications & Strategic Programs Manager for the Intel® Software Network, responsible for Take Five Videos and other new communication channels. Formerly, I helped launch the Intel Software Partner Program and Intel Business Exchange. In my free time I'm a soccer/basketball mom and enjoy hiking with my family and dog. Follow me on Twitter @amybarton.

Intel Parallel Universe Portal: A New Cloud-Based Analysis Tool to Measure Multicore Application Scaling

By Amy Barton (Intel) (25 posts) on November 17, 2009 at 7:01 am
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Today, Intel Corporation unveiled Intel® Parallel Universe Portal, a cloud-based scaling analysis tool to help with parallel programming.

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Category: Academic, Parallel Programming

Initial Press and Blog Coverage of Intel Atom Developer Program

By Amy Barton (Intel) (25 posts) on October 2, 2009 at 10:38 am
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Wow! I’m still counting the number of technical press articles, blog posts, forum posts, and tweets we've received since announcing the Intel Atom Developer Program at IDF on Sept. 22 in Paul Otellini's keynote. The Intel Software Network Article, "New Opportunities for Software Developers" went live during Renee James 9/23 keynote which featured a [...]

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Category: Intel® Atom™ Developer Program, Mobility

Video: Gaston Hillar's Developer Perspective on Intel Atom Developer Program

By Amy Barton (Intel) (25 posts) on September 29, 2009 at 7:34 am
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Intel Software Network Black Belt Developer, Gaston Hillar, spoke with me on video at the Intel Developer Forum last week about the opportunities he sees for developers to participate in the new Intel Atom Developer Program.  Gaston appeared onstage, during Corporate Vice President Renee Jame's keynote, showing his application Gaston's Playground on Windows and Moblin, [...]

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Category: Intel® Atom™ Developer Program, Mobility

Imagine the Possiblities of Your Netbook App Ideas

By Amy Barton (Intel) (25 posts) on September 23, 2009 at 9:30 am
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Today, Renee James, Intel VP for the Software & Services Group, gave additional details on the Intel® Atom Developer Program. Read more in the article Maryann & I just published: New Opportunities for Software Developers Start Now. Join the Challenge.

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Category: Intel® Atom™ Developer Program, Mobility

Live from New York! ... It's Clubhouse Parallel Universe on Teach Parallel!

By Amy Barton (Intel) (25 posts) on July 21, 2009 at 7:06 am
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Watch a special broadcast of Teach Parallel on Intel Software Network TV LIVE from a 3-day parallel programming boot camp with High School whiz kids. Interviews with Jeffrey M. Birnbaum, Bank of America, and Randy Asher, Brooklyn Technical High School.

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Category: Academic, Events, Financial Services Industry, Parallel Programming, Threading Building Blocks

Ask a Question...and you could win $25 for ThinkGeek.com

By Amy Barton (Intel) (25 posts) on July 14, 2009 at 12:01 pm
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Tell us. . . What development questions are on your mind? Enter the Intel Software Network "Just Ask" contest, and you could win $25 gift cards to ThinkGeek.com

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Category: Uncategorized

June 30th: Watch Intel Software Network TV LIVE

By Amy Barton (Intel) (25 posts) on June 23, 2009 at 2:28 pm
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Intel Software Network TV has an exciting line-up of shows for June 3oth including LIVE interviews with Joe Duffy of Microsoft, and with Chris Taylor, CEO of Gas Powered Games.

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Category: Academic, Gaming, Parallel Programming

Watch Intel Software Network TV LIVE on Tuesday, June 16

By Amy Barton (Intel) (25 posts) on June 15, 2009 at 12:17 pm
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Three new programs are scheduled for LIVE broadcast with interactive chat on Intel Software Network TV this week. http://intel.com/software/tv Here is the show schedule for Tuesday, June 16th. 8:00AM PACIFIC, June 16 Parallel Programming Talk with Clay Breshears & Aaron Tersteeg with special Guest, Duncan McCallum, CEO Cilk Arts Multicore Programming Software Episode 35: Duncan will be give a quick [...]

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Category: Academic, Parallel Programming, Social Media & Virtual Worlds, Uncategorized, Visual Computing

Intel Software Network TV - Are You Watching?

By Amy Barton (Intel) (25 posts) on June 9, 2009 at 8:49 am
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Today is the first day of LIVE broadcasts for the new Intel Software Network TV, providing live video streaming plus interactive chat.  Below is the complete lineup of programs for today, and our behind the scenes video.  Read the complete story, and watch at www.intel.com/software/TV June 9, 8 AM Pacific: Parallel Programming Talk with  Aaron Tersteeg, Dr. Clay [...]

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Category: Academic, Open Source, Parallel Programming

Video: Level Up 2009 Contest - Is your game ready to rise to glory?

By Amy Barton (Intel) (25 posts) on June 2, 2009 at 11:18 am
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Discover if your game concepts are ready to rise to glory. Enter Level Up 2009. For the first time, this year’s contestants will be judged by a panel of pioneering game developers who helped shape the industry (including Sid Meier, Will Wright and Rick Raymo), plus a team of experts from Intel. To hear more about [...]

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Category: Visual Computing

Videos Posted From GDC - More Coming

By Amy Barton (Intel) (25 posts) on April 3, 2009 at 11:49 am
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We're posting videos on Intel activities at GDC -- session overviews, chalk talks, demos, interviews with developers. t's Friday, a good time to watch a video or two and catch up on what happened at GDC. Oh, and subscribe to our RSS feeds, iTunes or YouTube so you don't miss anything.

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Category: Visual Computing

1000 Universities in the Intel Academic Community

By Amy Barton (Intel) (25 posts) on March 3, 2009 at 8:32 am
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I've been working on this story for a few weeks, waiting and wondering who would be the 1000th university to join the Intel Academic Community. Now that we've reached that milestone, I've asked those who have been closely involved in the program to blog about specific things going in on in their regions of the world.  [...]

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Category: Academic

SciFi Writing and Future of Multicore & Netbooks?

By Amy Barton (Intel) (25 posts) on October 29, 2008 at 11:20 am
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I recently chatted w/Mark Van Name, a science fiction writer and CEO of Principled Technologies. See our 2 short videos on the Future of Multicore and how is this vision influences Marks' Sci-Fi writing. And, what should netbooks of the future look like? Second, we pulled out a netbook, and asked Mark what he thought of the current designs, and where the industry should go w/netbooks. Are they here to stay? Well, in their current form, probably not... see what Mark says.

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Category: Mobility, Parallel Programming, Uncategorized

Take Five Videos: 150k Views, and Back to the Beginning?

By Amy Barton (Intel) (25 posts) on October 1, 2008 at 7:13 am
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The ISN Take Five Video program reached 150k views since launch. Last week, we migrated to a new video hosting platform. All videos moved over, however posting dates, categorizations, and thumbnails were lost. In the words of Inigo Montoya, we had to "go back to the beginning," migrating, and re-migrating until everything came out the right way. Take a look at the site, what would you like to see?

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Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0, Manageability, Mobility, Open Source, Parallel Programming, Social Media & Virtual Worlds, Virtualization, Visual Computing

CERN CTO Interview & Presentation Videos on Large Hadron Collider

By Amy Barton (Intel) (25 posts) on September 10, 2008 at 12:05 pm
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Exciting news that the CERN Large Hadron Collider was turned on today.  I had the chance to interview Sverre Jarp, CERN CTO during his visit to Intel in August and film his presentation to a small group here. We also have a video testimonial on how CERN has been working with the Intel(r) Software and Solutions [...]

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Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0, Parallel Programming, Uncategorized

Interview w/Greg Corson from Sony on COLLADA

By Amy Barton (Intel) (25 posts) on August 22, 2008 at 9:30 am
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I had the chance to talk w/, Greg Corson from Sony. Greg has been working on COLLADA at Sony since 2005, and has every single game development importing/exporting tool loaded onto his system to test for bugs. Hear what he has to say on game developer tools and COLLADA.

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Category: Events, Gaming, Intel® Software Network 2.0, Uncategorized, Visual Computing

Videos from SIGGRAPH '08

By Amy Barton (Intel) (25 posts) on August 18, 2008 at 10:31 am
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Just back from SIGGRAPH - Jerry & I filmed the demos in the Intel booth, as well as a few interviews with Intel(r) Software Partners. See videos from Organic Motion, Autodesk, Adobe and more showing the steps of the content creation pipeline.

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Category: Events, Gaming, Intel SW Partner Program, Intel® Software Network 2.0, Parallel Programming, Visual Computing

Take Five Video Series - are you watching?

By Amy Barton (Intel) (25 posts) on May 16, 2008 at 12:05 pm
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Ah, Friday, my favorite day for watching a few videos at work. I've been monitoring how many developers are watching all of the segments of the video series we've posted on the Take Five site.   It is natural that not everyone will make it to the end, but I'm wondering if there is anything we could do better. First, [...]

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Category: Gaming, Intel® Software Network 2.0, Manageability, Mobility, Parallel Programming, Uncategorized, Visual Computing

New Intel Mash Maker Videos from IDF Shanghai

By Amy Barton (Intel) (25 posts) on April 24, 2008 at 2:33 pm
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We've posted two brand new Intel Mash Maker videos from IDF Shanghai on our Take Five Video site. Take a look, they are on the "Community Tab" under Video Categories.

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Category: Events

Videos: Game Development Tools and Multicore

By Amy Barton (Intel) (25 posts) on March 26, 2008 at 1:54 pm
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Some of my favorite videos from the Game Developers Conference are now posted on Take Five including Game Development tools from Softimage, Luxology, Allegorithmics, TDVision, and Intel. And, don't miss Lee Bamber, CEO of Game Creators talking about the N-Core Revolution.

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Category: Gaming, Intel® Software Network 2.0, Mobility, Parallel Programming, Visual Computing

Game Demo Contest: '07 Winner Videos

By Amy Barton (Intel) (25 posts) on March 26, 2008 at 1:08 pm
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Are you thinking of entering the 2008 Game Demo Contest? Watch these videos from the 2007 Winners to get the inside scoop on how to improve your chances of winning.

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Category: Gaming, Uncategorized

Sneak Peek Game Developer Videos: Far Cry 2 and Bionic Commando running on Skull Trail 8 core platform

By Amy Barton (Intel) (25 posts) on March 3, 2008 at 10:42 pm
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First videos from Game Developers Conference: sneak peaks(!) at pre-release games (Far Cry 2 and Bionic Commando) running on the just announced Skull Trail 8-Core Extreme Gaming platform. Also, Elliot Garbus - Intel VP on his vision for multicore and graphics, and Leigh Davies on optimizing DirectX for Multicore ... Are you game?

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Category: Gaming, Intel® Software Network 2.0, Parallel Programming, Uncategorized, Visual Computing

Take Five: New ISN Video Library Site

By Amy Barton (Intel) (25 posts) on February 14, 2008 at 9:33 am
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Today is the launch of the new ISN video site with the tag line: "Take Five." The site highlights senior Intel Technologists and new video series, links videos with blogs, and features new capabilities such as "Embed It" and "Direct URLs" for sharing videos. Watch the video introduction to the site.

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Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0, Manageability, Mobility, Parallel Programming

New Multicore Videos from Tim Mattson and Ed Grochowski

By Amy Barton (Intel) (25 posts) on February 14, 2008 at 9:32 am
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I've just posted the first in the new ISN Technologist video series, starting with Tim Mattson on Random Numbers and Floating Point Calculations and Ed Grochowski on Energy/Instruction. The idea is to bring a series of short technical videos from Intel Principal Engineers and strategists. What do you think?

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Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0, Parallel Programming

Making Videos for Intel Software Network

By Amy Barton (Intel) (25 posts) on February 7, 2008 at 12:57 pm
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I've read your comments on ISN videos (www.intel.com/software/videos), and took on the challenge to post more videos each quarter, make them snack sized and loaded with technical information. This blog post is to open the dialog - what makes technical videos work for you? How do you use and share ISN videos?

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Category: Intel® Software Network 2.0, Uncategorized