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Posts from Tao B Wang (Intel) 
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Joining Intel in 2002, Tao is currently technical analyst and collaborator of apps development and tools for Intel developer and partner communities, and member of the energetic team who created Intel Software Network. Tao was an America content delivery manager, operation and content development lab manager for Intel innovative software education. Tao has been managing the course delivery for university faculty training, in America region for Intel. He has been delivering training to SW developers and university faculty members in many countries including United States, Mexico, Cost Rica, Argentina and Brazil since 2004 Currently,Tao is technical analyst and collaborator on Apps development and tools for Intel Developer and Partner communities. Adovcating Intel mobile computing, html5, develop on virtual and apps development technoglogies via Intel Software Network for Android, Ultrabook and open source platform. The meaning of his name "Tao" as described by greatest Chinese P |
Video from Intel Embedded: Android Optimization on Intel® Architecture Based Platforms
By Tao B Wang (Intel) (25 posts) on November 16, 2011 at 3:02 pm
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My colleague, Ishu Verma, Platform Application Engineer at Intel discusses Android* Optimization on Intel® Architecture Based Platforms at ESC Boston 2011. Ishu details the benefits and drawback of using NDK and discusses Android* SDK and NDK toolset support x86. He demonstrates the easy for Android development on Intel® Atom™ based platforms: Watch Video here
Category: Academic, Android
Understanding Intel's Android 4.0 x86 Optimizations- What AnandTech has explained
By Tao B Wang (Intel) (25 posts) on November 15, 2011 at 11:10 am
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Last week, I attended Android Developer Conference ( AnDevConII) at San Francisco, and had chance to get shocked by Google's latest Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich (ICS) demoed by two Google senior Engineers Chet Haase and Romain Guy. The title of their keynote is "Android Awesomeness". It is indeed Awesomeness! Chet and Romain somehow figured out using [...]
Category: Academic, Android, Intel SW Partner Program, Mobility
Getting started on Android for x86: Step-by-step guide on setting up Android 2.2/2.3 for X86 testing environment in Oracle Virtualbox
By Tao B Wang (Intel) (25 posts) on October 11, 2011 at 4:07 pm
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Background With Google and Intel announcing collaboration on Android for X86 Intel Architecture last month on Intel IDF, it is official that the door is open for Android to, besides ARM, support Intel CPU family. As the only open source virtual software solution under the terms of the GNU GPL v2, cross-platforms Virtualbox provide a [...]
Category: Academic, Android, Intel SW Partner Program, Uncategorized
Interview with Professor Souqun Lu: Open Source Software Innovation in China (Meego, Android and beyond)
By Tao B Wang (Intel) (25 posts) on August 24, 2011 at 1:05 pm
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Last month, China Computer World Magazine, IT168 (China top IT portal), Daily News of Communication Industry and China Software and Information Service Magazine, co-interviewed Professor Lu Shouqun on open source software innovation status in China. Professor Lu is chairman of China Open Source Software Promotion Union (COSSPU), and honorary president of China Linux University Promotion [...]
Category: Academic, Open Source, Uncategorized
Meego Tablet 1.2 On Low Power Embedded Platform(China National College Student Software Innovation Contest Series)
By Tao B Wang (Intel) (25 posts) on August 5, 2011 at 2:02 pm
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The is a translation of a blog wrote by Zhchbin, a CS senior from Zhong Shang University(sysu.edu.cn), China. He participated the 4th Intel Cup National Software Innovation Contest for College Student( NSICCS) this year. The original blog can be found here. Embedded Platform LAB-8902 embedded platform is a new low power high-performance embedded platform made [...]
Category: Academic, Embedded Computing, Uncategorized
Envisioning Meego from the Prospect of Android's Development (China National College Student Software Innovation Contest Series)
By Tao B Wang (Intel) (25 posts) on July 31, 2011 at 11:02 am
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The is a translation of a blog wrote by Yi Zhu, a CS senior from Nanchang University, China. He participated the Intel Cup 4th National Software Innovation Contest for College Student( NSICCS) this year. The original blog can be found here. This is the first of translation series that I would like to introduce NSICCS [...]
Category: Academic, Mobility, Open Source, Uncategorized
Hands-on labs for Meego curriculum series: six new lab exercises contributed by university of Jyväskylä available
By Tao B Wang (Intel) (25 posts) on June 16, 2011 at 1:52 pm
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There are six hands-on Meego lab exercises included in this new release. Materials consist of laboratory exercises, code samples contributed by University of Jyväskylä, Finland, and are intended to provide more hands-on samples and exercises to Meego curriculum “Introduction to Software Development on Meego” to help students to learn basics of the MeeGo programming via hands-on experience. The lab titles are: Lab [...]
Category: Academic, Uncategorized
New Meego course module introduction: "Meego user experience design and development "
By Tao B Wang (Intel) (25 posts) on June 8, 2011 at 11:40 am
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This class introduces Meego user experience (UX) principles to students. Teacher is expected to teach Meego UX concepts, design principles, UX customization and touch UI. Students will learn to use available tools and resources to design application with best UX. This class is part of full Meego course" Introduction to Software Development on Meego (TM)" [...]
Category: Academic, Uncategorized
New Meego course module introduction: "Meego device and information management apps development"
By Tao B Wang (Intel) (25 posts) on June 8, 2011 at 11:20 am
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This class introduces Meego devices personal information management and system module. Teacher is expected to teach students on device state and resource policy management, sensor and contest. Student also learn personal info management (Calendar, contacts, backup and sync) and how to design apps associated with those resources. This class is part of full Meego course" [...]
Category: Academic, Uncategorized
New full course "Introduction to Software Development on MeeGo™" is on education exchange repository
By Tao B Wang (Intel) (25 posts) on June 1, 2011 at 2:44 pm
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All modules of the full course " Introduction to Software Development on Meego (TM) " are available today on Education Exchange Repository on Intel Academic Community site. These sessions have instruction slides, hands-on labs and projects of each topic.This class is partially developed and contributed by the prestigious Beijing University and Qinghua University in China. The [...]
Category: Academic, Uncategorized
A Step by Step Guide: Build A Virtual Meego Tablet on Oracle Virtualbox for Meego Apps Development and Testing
By Tao B Wang (Intel) (25 posts) on May 23, 2011 at 2:19 pm
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Background Last year, I built a virtual Meego Netbook using Open Sourced Oracle Virtualbox, and feel it is convenient and responsive compared with the Meego Netbook running from Emulator under Qemu. So, when first Meego Tablet Alpha version OS was released earlier this year, I have tried several time on building a virtual Meego Tablet [...]
Category: Academic
Hi, Meego, Welcome to China!
By Tao B Wang (Intel) (25 posts) on October 6, 2010 at 3:01 pm
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Last month, after attending Renee's keynote at IDF, who announced the coming release of the first Meego Tablet made by WeTab from Germany, I decided to write a blog about it for my friends at China ISN. With many Chinese Media reporters wearing famous media and company logo passing around taking videos/photos, I wondered that I may [...]
Category: Embedded Computing, Intel® AppUp Developer Program, Mobility, Open Source, Uncategorized
Tags: idf, Intel® AppUp Developer Program, Intel® Atom™, MID, mobile, moblin, Open Source
Triple-boot (Win7/Ubuntu/Meego) Netbook Build for Application Development for Appup
By Tao B Wang (Intel) (25 posts) on June 10, 2010 at 6:41 pm
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Last month, in preparation for the first Intel Atom Application lab conference at San Jose, CA, I was trying to build system that support the application development on Windows 7 and Ubuntu (both are OS's that Software Development Kits (SDK) for Intel Atom Developer Program have been tested on) and at the same time, can [...]
Category: Intel® AppUp Developer Program, Mobility, Open Source
Tags: application, meego
How long would it have to take to compile today’s Linux kernel on the computer that Linus Torvalds started 19 years ago?
By Tao B Wang (Intel) (25 posts) on April 21, 2010 at 2:04 pm
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A few weeks ago, I got a chance sitting a dozen feet away from the farther of Linux, Linus Torvalds, who was delivering a keynote speech to a conference. It was an open questions and answers style forum with laugh and cheer bursting out time to time during the Q’s and A’s even though it has been [...]
Category: Academic
My First Try of Cloud Computing- RemoteApp from Windows Server 2008 R2
By Tao B Wang (Intel) (25 posts) on January 8, 2010 at 3:29 pm
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Last year, Microsoft Windows 7 draw a lot of attention on its release. People are looking at how it compete with Apple OS as well as its leap performance from its predecessor Vista, but unknowingly leave the server version of Windows 7: Windows Server 2008 R2 overlooked. If you happened to have a new laptop with [...]
Category: Academic, Manageability & Security, Parallel Programming, Software Tools, Uncategorized
Tags: Cloud Computing
Conversions with Microsoft Parallel Computing Team at SC09: My first experience on Parallel Technologies in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Beta
By Tao B Wang (Intel) (25 posts) on December 8, 2009 at 11:07 am
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During the SC09 at Portland Expo Center, I stopped by the Microsoft Booth, and met with Danny, MS program manager for concurrency development platform, and Erika of common language Runtime team on Parallel Technologies in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. We had some very informative and productive discussions, and I had an opportunity to see some [...]
Category: Academic, Parallel Programming
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My Half Day at Supercomputing 09 at Portland Expo Center
By Tao B Wang (Intel) (25 posts) on November 19, 2009 at 3:36 pm
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As usual of this year at Portland metro, it is raining and windy this week. After watched the SC09 keynotes at Intel Software Network TV, I decided to utilize the pass I got from our Academic Community manager to go to SC09. Trimet MAX Light Rail is my best choice as it will drop me right [...]
Category: Academic
Intel Academic Community Courseware Moodle, An Example of Use of Moodle for a Corporate LMS Platform
By Tao B Wang (Intel) (25 posts) on October 19, 2009 at 3:34 pm
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Since my first blog on moodle topic published last April “Moodle Community, Another Example of Moore's Law”, I have received many responses either by blog replies or emails. For those who asked me about moodle and did not get my response, I can only offer apologies as I am still a learner and have no [...]
Category: Academic, Parallel Programming
Tags: Academia Courseware, Add new tag
Moodle Community, Another Example of Moore's Law
By Tao B Wang (Intel) (25 posts) on April 25, 2009 at 12:09 am
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In the current unprecedented global economic downturn, a community associated with a learning management system ( LMS) called Moodle for global educators is growing at an exponential rate. It is becoming extremely popular partially more so in this economy, but most likely because of its open source nature with high performance/cost ratio. The number of moodle sites [...]
Category: Academic, Open Source
Journey of a Thousand Miles Begins with Many “Parallel” Single Steps
By Tao B Wang (Intel) (25 posts) on March 4, 2009 at 4:08 pm
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It was a dark raining night at Atlanta International Airport in November, 2005. I have been roaming inside airport tunnel for hours while in transit. By midnight, gradually people were arriving at the gate area waiting for the final boarding call for United Airline's flight to Sao Paulo, Brazil. This was my first international trip [...]
Category: Academic
How is the Conflict Between Serialization and Parallelization in Version Control Resolved?
By Tao B Wang (Intel) (25 posts) on February 17, 2009 at 5:11 pm
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After spending some time looking around for a version control solution for a global team like the one we have, the open-source client Subversion with TortoiseSVN came to my attention, and I found it to be a robust, easy, and popular implementation of version control. Building an Apache 2 server on top of Windows* 2003 [...]
Category: Academic, Open Source, Site News & Announcements, Software Tools
Smoke Demo and Destroy the Castle on laptop- Multi-core and Parallel Programming Mobile Demo Platform ( 笔记本上做Smoke Demo 和摧毁城堡示范-多核和并行编程直观示范便携平台)
By Tao B Wang (Intel) (25 posts) on February 3, 2009 at 12:01 pm
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If you want to give a killer-demo to the decision-maker of your organization with a strong visual impact, and be able to switch between single core and multi-core, serial and parallel codes during the demo, the best solution is Smoke and Destroy the Castle Demos. While you are also thinking that it seems not [...]
Category: Academic, Game Development, Graphics & Media, Mobility, Parallel Programming, Software Tools
Network Driver Build for Red Hat RHEL5U2 using Intel Wired Ethernet Project on SourceForge.net
By Tao B Wang (Intel) (25 posts) on January 19, 2009 at 11:49 am
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Recently, I received a Intel Nehalem server board upgrade that has Intel(R) PRO/1000 gigabit Ethernet devices (52572) as onboard NIC for software development testing. When I installed Red Hat RHEL 5 Update 2, I found out that the Red Hat did not provide the drivefor the onboard NIC. On Red Hat Network Configuration utility, adding [...]
Category: Intel SW Partner Program, Open Source, Parallel Programming
Best known fixes and workaround for several dynamic library link errors found on running lab for Threading Game for Performance
By Tao B Wang (Intel) (25 posts) on January 5, 2009 at 3:34 pm
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Recently, Course Materails for a one-day Threading Games for Performance workshop are available for academic community member to download (http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/threading-games-for-performance). This mid-level workshop takes a sample game, Destroy the Castle, from serial to parallel over the course of one day. Strategies are considered for optimal threading of components such as physics, AI, and rendering. Tools are employed to [...]
Category: Academic, Parallel Programming
Practical Lab: Build Game Technology Demo-Smoke on a rack mountable server
By Tao B Wang (Intel) (25 posts) on December 12, 2008 at 5:08 pm
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Smoke is a tech demo that showcases a framework to support n-way threading of game technologies and performance scaling with Cores. Smoke is a teaching tool to demonstrate the ability to create a framework that can scale to any number of threads. It allows the viewer to control the number of worker threads that can [...]