Elegant C

Sol Boucher  presented his thesis proposal today via Zoom.  It was well attended and I think many of us are already looking forward to his d...

A recent ACM article,  C is Not a Low-Level Language , argues that for all of our impressions that C is close to hardware, it is not actuall...

We can consider parallelism strategies as either competitive (such as pthreads) or cooperative (such as Cilk).  Cooperative systems assume t...

Today, I went to Michael Sullivan 's thesis defense, who passed.  The work was at a delightful intersection of my interests. We want b...

I wanted to like this book,  Multicore and GPU Programming: An Integrated Approach , and be able to use it in the classroom.  I teach a clas...

Several of the talks were great and very interesting.  Other talks particularly needed further presentation practice.  Unfortunately, someti...

Another conference day.  Much of my time is spent talking with other attendees and doing "work", such as preparing my presentation...

One problem I had in preparing the curriculum for this fall is how to balance teaching programming languages versus the features that exist ...

At SIGCSE this year, I spoke with several publishers about possible textbooks.  Primarily, for ones that would work in the different classes...

It is colder here in Kansas City.  Fortunately, I will only be outside briefly.  Most often I will be networking and continuing my efforts t...

In parallel programming, most of the time the use of locks is good enough for the application.  And when it is not, then you may need to res...

In order to optimize any code, know that the optimizations "depend on the exact architecture of the machine (processor, memory, etc), t...

Having submitted a paper this week to a conference, I have been lax on posting any updates.  With the submission behind me, I shall present ...

A little over a week ago, I was at Berkeley for the 3rd annual Workshop on Hot Topics in Parallelism.  The exciting thing was that researche...

With my time dominated by preparing to take PhD qualifying exams (i.e., quals), I have been even more slack than usual with regards to prepa...