Elegant C

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...

Valley of Genius is a history of Silicon Valley based on the people who made it.  Since the work was based on interviews, I expected that i...

Mark Guzdial noted today that the CRA has prepared its  memo about teaching faculty in research departments.  For the past two years, I hav...

The Art of Application Performance Testing , covers what it says.  The book starts with concepts general to any performance testing, which w...

The Communications of the ACM recently had several development articles, and I found the one on static analysis tools at Google particularl...

It is the end of the semester, so time for posters about student projects.  I visited two sessions so far with three more to go.  I specific...