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posted by tin
on Friday January 25, @08:49PM
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| IEEE EDA Programming Challenge |
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posted by tin
on Sunday February 25, @09:22AM
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Here's a programming challenge open only to current students, sponsored by the IEEE Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA). The assigned challenge is to implement a logic optimization or verification algorithm using the OpenEDA OpenAccess database. A "fixed number of significant contributions" will receive travel, lodging, and registration to the International Workshop for Logic Synthesis (IWLS), and the winning entry will receive $500. The first deadline (for preliminary papers) is April 15.
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| Distributed computing for selecting stock strategies |
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posted by tin
on Sunday February 25, @07:45AM
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An anonymous reader (rather emphatically) points out an interesting new application of distributed computing, gstock.com has produced a distributed client that claims to performs an exhaustive search to predict optimal stock trading strategies by using otherwise idle CPU time donated by individuals running the client. (No mention is made regarding the amortized cost of all the extra power and cooling generously donated by the individuals running the client.) I'm not entirely convinced there's much merit to the overall strategy, seems like the theory may be as flawed as predicting random lottery numbers or the output of a true random number generator based on the previous output. The whole thing seems more likely to be a unique pump-and-dump stock scheme glossed over with a bit of fancy-sounding technology.
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| Amazing New Sort Algorithm (or not...) |
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posted by tin
on Sunday February 25, @07:21AM
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How many things can you find wrong with this amusing claim to have invented a new sort algorithm that is "10 times faster" than merge sort?
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| Growing gender gap in computer science |
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posted by tin
on Sunday December 18, @05:13AM
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A Boston Globe article, In computer science, a growing gender gap reports on a phenomenom you'be most likely noticed, that computer science, along with most engineering and similar majors, tends to be overwhelmingly male, and even increasingly so. While not giving a completely convincing argument as to why this has happened, the article does highlight some interesting changes to university programs that may help this situation in the future. What do you think the solution is?
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posted by tin
on Friday August 26, @05:17PM
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Some of my earliest memories are of my father working on carpentry projects. Thus I might be a bit biased towards the title of Greg Wilson's programming course for non-CS scientists, Software Carpentry. Having recently purchased a programming book for a non-programmer, I noticed that it did a reasonable job of covering the basics of the programming language but not so much about all the ancillary tasks that make up software development. Software Carpentry manages that in spades, trying to cover almost everything that you could find useful. Beginning CS students could find this useful, particularly those who are taught basics of programming languages, but receive no instruction on source control, building makefiles, and other tasks that are amazingly helpful but not absolutely essential for class work. It reminds me of the excellent Reader's Digest Complete Do-It-Yourself Manual in that it covers every part of a project, from describing the tools to completion and maintenance.
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posted by tin
on Thursday August 25, @06:38AM
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posted by tin
on Wednesday August 24, @12:47PM
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When you're a student, the word "free" has a special ring to it. And for CS students, nothing is better than free CS books (actually, I can think of a lot of things that are better...) Here are two sites that promise just that Free Tech Books and Tech Books for Free. While in life you usually get what you pay for, many of the listed books aren't too bad. Among the gems, is SICP, a book every coder should read at least once in their life, if only for the great programming examples and problems. Is this a new trend? Contrary to the usual sense, the authors of online books usually claim that releasing their book online has only helped them, either by allowing them to get published or by increasing the book's sales.
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| Programming Language Inventor or Serial Killer |
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posted by tin
on Monday August 22, @03:09PM
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Sometimes there's a fine line between the two... Take this quiz (Flash required) to find out if you can tell the difference. At least there haven't been any that qualify as both...
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| Hardware Photorealistic Rendering |
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posted by tin
on Sunday August 21, @09:29PM
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An intriguing product for those into graphics algorithms, ART's Pure rendering card claims to be a hardware raytracing card that can render a photorealistic scene in minutes. It seems like it may not be all that long (given Moore's Law and all that) before realtime raytracing (without any tricks) is possible. With eight special purpose processors performing a claimed 1.1 billion ray-triangle intersections per second, the Pure card puts the software raytracer I wrote to shame...
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