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Posts from Jeff Gallagher (Intel) 
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Third of four sons. Hail from Ohio. Live in Santa Cruz, CA, now. I like the ocean, the music of Mozart, and driving the PCH. |
The 8 Mysteries of Intel Parallelism Content Awards Revealed!
By Jeff Gallagher (Intel) (17 posts) on September 6, 2011 at 10:27 am
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A very good friend of mine who recently left the high tech industry to become an attorney tells this story about one of his first jobs out of college: seems he was dissatisfied with his current job and had been actively looking for work at other companies. After a few interviews and a few offers, [...]
Category: Academic, Game Development, Intel SW Partner Program
Using the Intel® Manycore Testing Lab: Classroom Research, Contests, and Capstones
By Jeff Gallagher (Intel) (17 posts) on June 21, 2011 at 2:14 pm
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The Intel® Manycore Testing Lab is a 40 core/80 thread remote access facility that members of the Intel Academic Community sign up for and use (for free). It’s a direct benefit of joining the Intel Academic Community, for use by professors and their students, if those professors want their students to have hands on experience. [...]
Category: Academic, Software Tools
Tags: Intel(R) Manycore Testing Lab, MTL, student projects
Whither the Intel® Manycore Testing Lab?
By Jeff Gallagher (Intel) (17 posts) on May 6, 2011 at 2:43 pm
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You may or may not be aware that the American actress Carrie Fisher is also an accomplished author. I mention this because one of my favorite quotes of hers goes like this: “Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.” (Actually, Nelson Mandela, the international humanitarian and politician said something [...]
Category: Academic, Parallel Programming, Performance and Optimization, Software Tools
Making Contact: SIGCSE 2010
By Jeff Gallagher (Intel) (17 posts) on February 10, 2010 at 2:11 pm
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The 41st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education is happening this year in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA, from March 10th through March 13th. The event is known as SIGCSE 2010, and if – like most people – you’d like some help filtering through the alphabet soup here, this one’s on me: ACM stands for Association [...]
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Two of the 10 most powerful ideas in software engineering
By Jeff Gallagher (Intel) (17 posts) on July 29, 2009 at 2:45 pm
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In May I had the privilege of watching Steve McConnell present at the International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) 2009 Vancouver. Steve’s an articulate and insightful person, and presents beautifully. You should check his ideas out if you haven’t as yet: http://www.stevemcconnell.com/ At ICSE 2009 he was a keynote speaker and chose this provocative topic: [...]
Category: Academic, Intel SW Partner Program, Site News & Announcements, Software Tools
Collaboration: Intel, SEPARS, and ICSE 2009 (Vancouver, British Columbia)
By Jeff Gallagher (Intel) (17 posts) on June 19, 2009 at 9:21 am
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Overview Mike Wrinn and I (both of Intel) gave a joint, day-long session last month in parallel programming concepts, tools, and techniques in a planned, tight collaboration with Walter Tichy and Victor Pankratius, both of the University of Karlsruhe, Germany. We gave this session (a combined lecture and hands-on workshop) during ...
Category: Academic, Events, Intel SW Partner Program, Software Tools
Beta me? Beta YOU!
By Jeff Gallagher (Intel) (17 posts) on May 5, 2009 at 2:20 pm
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There’s a trend with some modern software that I’m having trouble understanding, maybe I’m just too “old school” sometimes. It might have started with the Linux kernel updates oh-so-many-years ago; maybe not. This trend is not showing any signs of slacking and, and is in fact, clearly getting worse in my recent experience. Honestly, if [...]
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The Fudge Factor, Spring 2009
By Jeff Gallagher (Intel) (17 posts) on April 1, 2009 at 1:09 pm
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An online Wired interview with Dan Ariely delves into Dan’s corpus of research analyzing the basic questions of cheating who what where how and why a little more intensely than the average study. Ariely is a professor of behavioral economics at Duke University and MIT is also the author of the book Predictably Irrational, which [...]
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Eight Simple Words of Clarity...
By Jeff Gallagher (Intel) (17 posts) on October 3, 2008 at 2:06 pm
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In 1996 I had the privilege of watching a world-renowned, Danish-American pianist and humorist named Victor Borge perform in a local concert hall. The evening was billed as part of his 85th Birthday Tour, as he was apparently working his way around the US playing to sold-out crowds even at that advanced age. You may [...]
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No child left what?
By Jeff Gallagher (Intel) (17 posts) on August 15, 2008 at 10:48 am
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Seems to me over the years that I've watched some pretty good instructors, both in business and the public- and private-school sectors (yes, like many of you, I've been exposed to all of these environments at various times). It's a privilege to watch some as they work; for others, a mere pleasure. The good instructors [...]
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Dirty Rotten Cheaters in the News (Fall 2007)
By Jeff Gallagher (Intel) (17 posts) on October 19, 2007 at 9:06 am
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Oh, Canada! A McGill University student, sophomore Jesse Rosenfeld, objected to the mandatory use of a plagiarism-detection website (Turnitin.com) and won his appeal with the local senate committee. No, I am not making this up. Rosenfeld, who would probably politely be called a “B or C” student here in the USA, said he had “an [...]
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Dirty Rotten Cheaters in the News (June 2007)
By Jeff Gallagher (Intel) (17 posts) on July 30, 2007 at 11:22 am
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Professional Schools and Cheating Professionals Catching cheaters is the easy way to find out who is cheating. (Duh.) Otherwise, you survey students and ask them to be honest about their dishonesty. Strangely, students usually seem to reply with candor in such surveys. Seems now in the USA that professional schools (schools that produce dentists, doctors, [...]
Category: Academic
Dirty Rotten Cheaters in the News (May 2007)
By Jeff Gallagher (Intel) (17 posts) on May 3, 2007 at 1:06 pm
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Man's best friend? Patna University in India has done some creative thinking to prevent cheating by students on exams: sniffer dogs! Well, dogs in combination with private security guards, anyway. This is the first time the dogs were in use, and also the first time that private security guards were used instead of state police(!) [...]
Category: Academic
Dirty Rotten Cheaters in the News (April 2007)
By Jeff Gallagher (Intel) (17 posts) on April 10, 2007 at 1:16 pm
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Oh sure, get all legal on me NOW... Bhavnagar University (India) may soon want a patent on the methods of cheating used by its students in exams. As preposterous as it may sound, BU recently refused to give information sought under the Right to Information Act on copying methods used in exams, stating that it [...]
Category: Academic
Class Rules rule!
By Jeff Gallagher (Intel) (17 posts) on November 29, 2006 at 12:26 am
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Ancient history in internet time is six months ago; however again, I dare to set the way-back machine to the early 1990's, yet one more time" "I had just come from working with a major hardware vendor located in Ohio, where field engineers took classes that required *months* to complete. The engineer-students were housed on [...]
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Warm ups
By Jeff Gallagher (Intel) (17 posts) on October 12, 2006 at 10:16 pm
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You know there's a special place in my heart for teaching UNIX or LINUX system administration classes, even though I haven't taught one in a decade. Such classes are usually a week long which actually gives you a real chance to get to know your students. Also, the classes typically involve huge amounts of work, [...]
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Saying the same thing 10 different ways
By Jeff Gallagher (Intel) (17 posts) on September 25, 2006 at 10:18 pm
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As a sometime instructor with a pedagogy degree or two from the last century it's pretty easy for me to fess up here: I hate it when I attend a class, any class " on software or you name it -- and the instructor only knows one way to explain a concept to the class. [...]