Elegant C

This week I have been co-hosting Miranda Parker , from Georgia Tech, as part of our Colloquium on Computer Science Pedagogy .  Her work is t...

Ben Blum  defended his dissertation work today on Practical Concurrency Testing.  What follows are the notes from that defense. To prove t...

Dr. Thomas H. Zurbuchen the Associate Administrator of NASA's Science Mission Directorate gave a talk today about some key lessons he h...

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...