Last week, I had the chance to meet Intel’s Leigh Davies. Leigh is a Senior Application Engineer who specialises in PC gaming. He has extensive experience in this field and spends a lot of his time helping games companies – including many you’ve heard of, but we can’t name here – to optimise their games. [...]
Interactive parallel programming workshop, ParaPLoP, returns on 10th-12th May in Carefree, Arizona. Those wishing to attend are invited to submit their papers before 15th April, although a limited number of non-authors may also have the chance to attend. Anyone submitting their paper in advance of the deadline will have the opportunity to receive feedback from the organisers and [...]If you want to bone up on your parallel programming and don’t have anything else on tomorrow evening, there’s a free virtual conference taking place on multicore. It kicks off at 12.30 EST, which is 5.30pm in the UK, and has a line-up to rival a real-world conference. It’s run by EETimes and there’s a [...]Emotional Robots is a great name for a gaming company. It’s a catchy hook, describes the interaction between on-screen characters and gamers, and also flips a nod perhaps, to the way we live today. The company is set to launch a multiplayer game called Warm Gun. Set in a dystopian Wild West it features players [...]Intel’s Concurrency Improvement Center (CIC) is worth a mention as I think you might find it quite a useful resource. It’s designed to provide parallel and programming tools and resources to help you improve the concurrency levels of your software. And as you no doubt know the level of concurrency that an application achieves will [...]Wining and dining in Paris, at a swish location with views of the Arc de Triomphe, sounds like something too good to turn down. Members of the Intel Software Partner Program are being invited to the Salons Etoile Wagram to an exclusive networking event. It’s a marble floored, ornate furniture, refined sort of place that [...]This year’s Turing Award has gone to Leslie Valiant, currently a Harvard faculty member, for his work in a number of fields including parallel programming. The prize, a nice $250,000, is awarded by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and is in honour of Alan Turing, who helped develop a theoretical foundation for understanding machine [...]At the beginning of February, Oxford University revealed details of a new BA degree in Computer Science and Philosophy. Its rationale for the course is based on a broad focus that the two disciplines share; representation of information and rational inference, common interests in algorithms, cognition, intelligence, language, models, proof and verification. It’s a bold [...]A computer science professor at MIT, Martin Rinard, has come up with a new idea for speeding up programs: only do half the work. (“New” in this case means “new to me”, because the article dates from last May. But here’s a hat-tip to Multicoreinfo.com for bringing it to my attention now. It remains a [...]As late as November 2006, everybody thought that PC and mobile internet users would see different versions of the internet. Then the iPhone happened. Anand Chandrasekher, SVP and GM at Intel’s Ultra Mobility Group, started off his mini-keynote at Mobile World Congress (MWC) with a timely reminder of how fast the whole mobile industry has [...]