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Google has made available high resolution photographs of the Dead Sea Scroll online along with the English translation of the original Hebrew text.
Google has launched a completely rebuilt, streamlined authoring and editing experience with seven new ways to display blogs in Blogger called Dynamic Views. Built with the latest in web technology (AJAX, HTML5 and CSS3), Dynamic Views is a unique browsing experience ...
Microsoft has made a preview of Windows 8 available to anyone who takes the time to download it. Windows 8 Developer Preview, as Microsoft called the pre-beta build, was posted to a company website shortly after 8 p.m. Easter...
Hewlett-Packard has launched a beta IaaS (Infrastructure-as-a-Service) offering called HP Cloud Services. The initial offerings, called HP Cloud Compute and HP Cloud Object Storage, will provide compute and storage resources from HP's own data centers. HP will use the OpenStack set of ...
"Actors avoid the dangers of the shared-memory model because they touch only the data that's sent to them in messages. If they need some external data, they request it from other actors (by sending the request in the form of a me...
Google Instant Pages is now on by default in the latest stable version of Chrome. This means that sometimes when you click a Google search result in Chrome, the page will appear to load much faster than before. The video above shows a side by side comparison of Chrome with and wi...
Smartsheet is used by thousands of companies for online project management, task management, and many other types of work.
I have left NTU in June 2011 and is now with D-SIMLAB Technologies.
The puzzle embedded in the video has been solved. See: Jamendo geeks solve the hidden Chrome OS equation (and win a Cr-48 netbook); Google Chrome Blog: X = G / (C*H*R*O*M - 3);
The puzzle embedded in the video has been solved. See: Jamendo geeks solve the hidden Chrome OS equation (and win a Cr-48 netbook); Google Chrome Blog: X = G / (C*H*R*O*M - 3);
According to this article from newsweek, brainstorming has been proven not to work since 1958, when Yale researchers found that the technique actually reduced a team’s creative output: the same number of people generate more and better ideas sep...
According to this article from newsweek, brainstorming has been proven not to work since 1958, when Yale researchers found that the technique actually reduced a team’s creative output: the same number of people generate more and better ideas sep...
Douglas Crockford talks on the history of JavaScript unveiling some of the struggles the Ecma Technical Committee has had in advancing the language over the years, concluding with lessons learned: if one has a great idea he should not tell it to a standardization body but rather do ...
Douglas Crockford talks on the history of JavaScript unveiling some of the struggles the Ecma Technical Committee has had in advancing the language over the years, concluding with lessons learned: if one has a great idea he should not tell it to a standardization body but rather do ...
What Should We Teach New Software Developers? Why? Bjarne Stroustrup in CACM viewpoint, "Fundamental changes to computer science education are required to better address the needs of industry. Computer science must be at the center of software systems developm...
What Should We Teach New Software Developers? Why? Bjarne Stroustrup in CACM viewpoint, "Fundamental changes to computer science education are required to better address the needs of industry. Computer science must be at the center of software systems developm...
The Software Engineering Method And Theory (SEMAT) Community Call for Action Statement: Software engineering is gravely hampered today by immature practices. Specific problems include: The prevalence of fads more typical of fashion industry than of an engineer...
The Software Engineering Method And Theory (SEMAT) Community Call for Action Statement: Software engineering is gravely hampered today by immature practices. Specific problems include: The prevalence of fads more typical of fashion industry than of an engineer...
The traditional approach to inventory provisioning sets all spares requirements to a level that meets an item’s performance measure, such as a stock-out protection level, a fill rate, a mission critical rate, or a confidence level. Such an approach can...
In this article, Michael Wolfe from PGI discusses different aspects of OpenCL. Given all the hype, what can we expect from OpenCL? Is it really simple? Is it portable? Will it replace other parallel programming models?
In this article, Michael Wolfe from PGI discusses different aspects of OpenCL. Given all the hype, what can we expect from OpenCL? Is it really simple? Is it portable? Will it replace other parallel programming models?
This special edition eBook from Sun and AMD shares details on real-world uses of HPC, explains the different types of HPC, guides you on how to choose between different suppliers, and provides benchmarks and guidelines you can use to get your system up and runnin...
This special edition eBook from Sun and AMD shares details on real-world uses of HPC, explains the different types of HPC, guides you on how to choose between different suppliers, and provides benchmarks and guidelines you can use to get your system up and runnin...
An interesting article by Tom DeMarco, author of the 1979 book "Structured Analysis and System Specification" and inventor of the data flow diagram.
An interesting article by Tom DeMarco, author of the 1979 book "Structured Analysis and System Specification" and inventor of the data flow diagram.
A seven part series from Sun on the introduction to parallel programming. Part 1 is on performance tuning.
A seven part series from Sun on the introduction to parallel programming. Part 1 is on performance tuning.
Microsoft has unveiled its new control system for the Xbox 360. Project Natal is a fully hands-free control system that will use face recognition and motion sensors to allow users to play games.
Microsoft has unveiled its new control system for the Xbox 360. Project Natal is a fully hands-free control system that will use face recognition and motion sensors to allow users to play games.
The Read Green Initiative offers millions of people FREE access to an alternative, environmentally friendly way of enjoying favorite magazines, books and other publications. Simply select your free one-year digital subscription to any featured magazine and read it with Z...
The Read Green Initiative offers millions of people FREE access to an alternative, environmentally friendly way of enjoying favorite magazines, books and other publications. Simply select your free one-year digital subscription to any featured magazine and read it with Z...
From this article, running multiple functions together with Intel Thread Building block is as simple as the following: void Function1();void Function2();void Function3();void RunFunctions() {tbb::parallel_invoke(Function1, Function2,...
From this article, running multiple functions together with Intel Thread Building block is as simple as the following: void Function1();void Function2();void Function3();void RunFunctions() {tbb::parallel_invoke(Function1, Function2,...
This video in YouTube gives an easy to understand explanation of what Cloud Computing is.
This video in YouTube gives an easy to understand explanation of what Cloud Computing is.