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Musings on social media in education

By Matthew Wolf (4 posts) on October 23, 2009 at 12:38 pm
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Initially, this post was going to be titled "To blog or not to blog", but that seemed to perhaps cut a little too close to my perhaps overly infrequent updates here.  What I wanted to muse about a bit, however, was the sudden currency of the issues around higher education and the use of social [...]

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Category: Academic

Multicore in Systems Classes -- #1

By Matthew Wolf (4 posts) on October 23, 2009 at 12:38 pm
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I'm giving this a very leading title -- with any luck this is the first of a series of blog entries about my experiences weaving multicore concepts and issues into the junior-level Operating Systems course that I'm teaching this semester.  The title is specifically "Design of Operating Systems", which is really a perfect way to [...]

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Category: Academic, Parallel Programming

Know Multicore? How can I tell?

By Matthew Wolf (4 posts) on June 2, 2009 at 10:35 am
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Hello, all. The semester's finally over, and I now have some time to write up the various things that have been ruminating in the back of my mind.  Tom's earlier blog post resonates nicely with one of those... namely, what is it that I, as an educator, could measure that would let me tell if students [...]

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Category: Academic, Parallel Programming

Multicore in the classroom -- say it three times

By Matthew Wolf (4 posts) on December 20, 2007 at 11:19 am
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I have been invited into the Intel Blogosphere to come give a perspective on the academic impact of the on-coming grand revolution in computing – the transition to multicore. A deliberately provocative description, I admit; I expect many of you are like me and hear a "the world will be transformed" announcement about once a [...]

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Category: Academic, Parallel Programming