Designing systems that are high-performance, power-efficient and easily programmable by non-experts is important at all levels of computing. Kayvon Fatahalian of Stanford University spoke at the University of Washington about this topic. While many recent innovations in parallel systems address this challenge in a general context, real-time graphics systems have achieved similar goals through domain-influenced co-design of algorithms, programming interfaces and heterogeneous, parallel hardware.
If equity markets suddenly sprang into existence now, would we create market indices? I’m doubtful. Why an index? The Dow Jones Industrial Average was born in 1896. Th...
You don't hear a lot about biological computing but this is super cool:
"It took us three years and 750 tries to make it work, but we finally did it," said Jerome Bonnet, ...
NEW YORK, May 23, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Qwiki, a New York-based technology company pioneering a new media format, today launched its publishing platform. Using Qwiki...
