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Parsing 8-bit integers quickly
Suppose that you want to parse quickly 8-bit integers (0, 1, 2, …, 254, 255) from an ASCII/UTF-8 string. The problem comes up…
From Putting People First
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The Plenitude Creativity, Innovation, and Making Stuff Rich Gold Foreword by John Maeda MIT Press, September 2007 We live with a lot of stuff. The average kitchen...
From Putting People First
Research on how teenagers use news sites
The Newspaper Association of America (NAA) Foundation has published a report on a study on how teenagers use news sites. “The NAA Foundation and the Media Management...
From insideHPC
Panasas and Dell Partner on Life
Panasas announced today a new partnership with Dell aimed at developing integrated compute and storage solutions for the life-sciences market.
From Putting People First
Prepaid economies and bottom of the pyramid research in Helsinki
Recent Experientia collaborator and emerging markets expert Niti Bhan, who is currently based in Helsinki, Finland (where we met her yesterday), is involved with...
From insideHPC
ISC keynotes focus on lean brain management, next generation HPC, and
The 2009 International Supercomputing Conference (held this year June 23-26 in Hamburg, Germany) has announced its slate of four keynote addresses Tuesday, June...
From CSDiary
A New Era in Support for Science Research
Two days ago, President Obama set the remarkably ambitious goal of spending 3% of the US gross domestic product on basic and applied science research. If achieved...
From The Noisy Channel
Google Shows Wolfram Who
I actually feel bad for Stephen Wolfram. After all the weeks of hype leading up to his public demonstration of Wolfram Alpha at Harvard this afternoon, Google upstaged...
From The Noisy Channel
Google Shows Wolfram Who
I actually feel bad for Stephen Wolfram. After all the weeks of hype leading up to his public demonstration of Wolfram Alpha at Harvard this afternoon, Google upstaged...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Twitter Quitters Grow
According to Nielsen News Wire only about 40% of the system's users comes back the following month. More stats at the site with overdone curve fitting. Twitter...
From The Eponymous Pickle
Analyzing Coupons with Biometrics
Overview of work done by Neurofocus on the reaction of consumers to coupons and promotions. Multiple biometrics techniques used. Analyzing print and online coupons...
From insideHPC
Apple Picks up Graphics
MSN Money via the Inquirer: Apple has hired graphics wizard Bob Drebin away from AMD’s graphics group.
From Daniel Lemire's Blog
End the University as We Know It: My Commentary
Mark C. Taylor is quickly becoming famous for his New York Times piece End the University as We Know It.
From insideHPC
Power down for the planet winner
Back in February we covered a challenge issued by the Climate Savers Computing Initiative to encourage universities reduce pollution by powering down campus computers...
From U.S. Public Policy Committee of the ACM
President Obama Announces New PCAST Members
Yesterday President Obama announced the full membership of his President's Council of Advisers on Science and Technology (PCAST). This is an advisory body that...
From insideHPC
Penguin Computing Making its
eWeek has posted an article on the latest progress made within the camp of Penguin Computing.
From Wild WebMink
links for 2009-04-28
Database Nation : The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century I read this book by Simson Garfinkel when it first came out. It's still...
From insideHPC
PRACE Offers Summertime Porting
PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, is sponsoring two summer workshops to be held at CSC Finland and CSCS Switzerland as part of a series of...
From The Eponymous Pickle
IBM to Open Analytics Centers
IBM will be opening a number of global analytics centers and hire or retrain 4,000 analytics professionals. They seem to be serious. Press release.
From insideHPC
Rice Buys Appro HyperGreen
Appro announecd today that the Rice University Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology has purchased an Appro HyperGreen Cluster solution.
From insideHPC