Reed's Ruminations: The Past, Present, and Future
Reflections on science, technology, and computing — leavened by personal experience
Author: Dan Reed
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Parallelism, Multicore and Academic Partnership
Today, Microsoft and Intel jointly announced the creation of two Universal Parallel Computing Research Centers (UPCRC): one at the University of California at Berkeley (UC-Berkeley) and a second at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC).
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Computing is Beauty; Computing is Truth
Truth and beauty, beauty and truth: as I recall, John Keats also had a few words to say on this topic. The universe in a grain of sand is here, in ways neither Blake nor Keats could have imagined.
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Comic Book Heroes and Secret Identities
Microsoft and Seagate have recently launched a joint comic book series about IT professionals, called Heroes Happen Here (HHH). It is linked to a Microsoft product launch (Windows Server 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and SQL Server 2008) and the associated marketing campaign. HHH will run through the end of June, and the writers are soliciting…
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Computing Education and the Infinite Onion
Much has been written about declining enrollments in computer science, the image of computing among secondary school students, and the depressingly small numbers of women and minorities enrolled in computer science programs. There are many opinions about the root causes of our enrollment problems and at least as many opinions about possible solutions. The reality…
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Why Curiosity Matters
In my recent Computing Research Association (CRA) column, I reflected on the sense of wonder and empowerment that comes from informed curiosity.
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Everyone Needs to Eat
They were ordinary men, one black and one white. Like most, they lived uneventful lives. Their story has been seldom told – that changes here, now, today. Theirs is a story about the evolving dream that is America.