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Development is more fun with kittens – three fun placeholder tools
Place Kitten gives you place holder images that make you wonder if you should bother ever replacing them, like: Cupcake Ipsum generates much better Lorem Ipsum text that your run-of-the-mill tools, like: Cupcake ipsum dolor sit amet. Toffee…
February 28 2012, 5:34pm | Comments »
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Speaking once again on Parallelism and Computer Science Education at the Intel Developer Forum
As a hiring manager building teams working on modern computer software; I’ve often been disappointed in the lack of a proper foundation in parallel algorithms and architectures being taught in current Computer Science curricula. To that end, I’ve…
September 4 2011, 1:56am | Comments »
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Speaking on the “Teach Parallel” show on IntelTV tomorrow
[crosspost from my adobe.com blog] Tomorrow morning, I’ll be speaking with Paul Steinberg of Intel and Tom Murphy of Contra Costa college about the criticality of understanding parallel programming techniques for industry. In my previous role on the…
May 16 2011, 5:57pm | Comments »
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Speaking at the AMD Fusion Developer Summit – June
If you are planning on attending the AMD Fusion Developer Summit in Bellevue, WA in June, come see me talk about Pixel Bender (probably for the last time!) with Bob Archer. Here is the description of the session:…
April 12 2011, 12:57am | Comments »
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HPC on the (relative) cheap using public cloud providers
For the past several years, I’ve been working on leveraging high-performance computing techniques for high-throughput data intensive processing on desktop computers for stuff like image and video processing. Its been fun tracking what the multi-processing end of HPC…
April 12 2011, 12:49am | Comments »
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I was having a conversation with someone the other day about unit testing. OK, actually I was interviewing someone for a Quality Engineering position on my team. We were talking about the difference between white-box tests that quality…
April 9 2011, 7:15am | Comments »
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A simple tip for prospective job seekers
If you are graduating with a degree in Computer Science and you are applying to companies in the software field; it is probably not a good idea to say something like “I’m looking for a job where I…
October 30 2010, 1:47am | Comments »
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October 8 2010, 2:32pm | Comments »
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Recordings from the Intel Developer Forum
Here is the recording from the panel I was on: Parallelism and Education: Navigating through a Sea of Cores with Dr. Daniel Ernst (University of Winsconsin-Eau Claire), Dr. Ryan Newton (Intel), Dr. Mathew Wold (Intel), Dr. Michael McCool…
September 28 2010, 3:21pm | Comments »

