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March 18, 2008
Communitites and the Networks that Define Them
That place where people, places, and things intersect is usually referred to as a "community." It doesn't matter what kind of people, places, and things we're talking about, it's still a community, and social networks are simply the most recent incarnation. One thing disparate communities share, at least according to Weixiong Zhang, a Washington University associate professor of computer science and engineering and of genetics, and Jianhua Ruan, a faculty member in Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, are networks within communities that define the community's structure.
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March 17, 2008
Communities and the Networks That Define Them
That place where people, places, and things intersect is usually referred to as a "community." It doesn't matter what kind people, places, and things we're talking about, it's still a community, and social networks are simply the most recent incarnation. One thing disparate communities share, at least according to , Weixiong Zhang, a Washington University associate professor of computer science and engineering and of genetics, and Jianhua Ruan, a faculty member in Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at San Antonio, are networks within communities that define the community's structure.
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March 11, 2008
BEE3: Microsoft, FPGAs, and the Future of Computer Architectures
Microsoft is supposed to be all about software, right?. After all, Gates and Allen didn't start off by calling the company "Microhard". But from time to time, hardware still pops up. The Microsoft Mouse, Microsoft Keyboard, and other devices come to mind. But this time around, Microsoft is going big-time hardware with a hardware platform called BEE3.
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Posted by Jon Erickson at 10:03 AM Permalink
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March 06, 2008
Jolt Award Winners Announced
Dr. Dobb's has announced the winners of the 18th annual Jolt Product Excellence and Productivity Awards at the SD West 2008 conference. The Jolt Awards recognize those products, books, and websites that have "jolted" the industry in the past year. Winners are selected by a panel of judges consisting of industry insiders, columnists, and technology leaders. This year's winners include:
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March 04, 2008
SD West 2008 Underway; Beautiful Code First Up
SD West 2008 is underway for me this evening. Actually, if I had gotten up earlier this morning, it might have been underway for me a lot sooner. However, sleeping-in made it possible for me to save up all my energy for this evening's panel discussion on "Beautiful Code." Not that I needed a lot of energy -- the panel participants did all the heavy lifting for me, which means that I didn't have to do a whole lot once I had them introduce themselves.
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Posted by Jon Erickson at 12:51 AM Permalink
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February 27, 2008
ROBOTC: A Programming Environment for Robotics
Does robotics need or require a special-purpose development environment? Apparently the folks at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Academy think so. Which is why they developed ROBOTC, a programming environment optimized for educational robots.
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Posted by Jon Erickson at 10:53 AM Permalink
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February 21, 2008
Taking Care of Business, or I'll Be the One With the Hang-dog Look
There are two things to cover today:
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Posted by Jon Erickson at 05:46 PM Permalink
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February 11, 2008
Cars and Cell Phones: Maybe They're Not So Bad After All
Wait a minute! Make up your mind! For years now, we've been hearing that cell phones and automobiles don't mix (or, as Microsoft might say, they don't Sync up). Now all of a sudden, its okay to have cell phones in your car, at least according to researchers at Nokia and the University of California at Berkeley.
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Posted by Jon Erickson at 01:49 PM Permalink
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February 04, 2008
Python In the News
There's been a lot going on with Python--and a lot yet to come. For instance:
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January 28, 2008
China Moving Up? I Wish I Had Read this First
I wish I had read this first. Not that it would have changed anything about my recent Coffee, Tea, or C++ editorial. No, but it might have given me more grist for the mill.
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