This week, 350 people will head to Microsoft’s Redmond campus to hear about C++, and in particular the C++11 update, from some leading experts, including Bjarne Stroustrup, Hans Boehm, and Herb Sutter. The event has sold out but the great news is that you don’t have to book a flight and find a babysitter for [...]
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A number of universities (primarily across America, but also including the UK’s Open University) are using the internet to open up their course materials to anybody who would like to study them. It means you can access lectures and notes from some of the world’s leading institutions, including Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Stanford. [...]
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The Babbage column in The Economist has published a short report about parallel computing, in the context of the water-cooled machines at Supercomputing ’11. The piece makes an interesting point about the way that supercomputing didn’t invent parallel computing, but it did turn the theory into practice and kickstart the cycle of innovation we see [...]
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