computation

Welcome to the 'computation' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'computation'.

Are you an expert about 'computation'? Do you want to be the Technorati authority on 'computation'? You can write a description that will appear right here: Join Blogcritics!

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “computation”

 

• Really Understanding Computation

  
  — Authority:
  It’s great to see that Tom Stuart’s Understanding Computation has made it out. I’ve been excited about this book ever since we signed it. Understanding Computation started from Tom’s talk Programming with Nothing, which he presented at Ruby Manor in …
  5 days ago

• Through the PRISM of Media Distortions (of BLARNEY)

  
  uncomputing — Authority: 88
  All over the headlines today, left, right, and center, general and technology press: “ NSA: ‘Dozens of attacks’ prevented by snooping ” ( The Register ); “ NSA chief: Surveillance has stopped dozens of potential attacks ” ( Chicago Tribune ); “ NSA head: Surveillance program prevented dozens of terrorist ...
  6 days ago

• Tutorials by Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research students,1-5 Wed 6/12

  
  — Authority:
  Tweet UMBCs Center for Hybrid Multicore Productivity Research , an NSF Industry & University Cooperative Research Center is holding its Industry Advisory Board meeting at UMBC 12-14 June. Students from UMBC and UCSD will present tutorials on a number of the technologies underlying ongoing CHMPR projects in a ...
  1 week ago

• Really Understanding Computation

  
  — Authority:
  Understanding Computation, From Simple Machines to Impossible Programs , by Tom Stuart It’s great to see that Tom Stuart’s Understanding Computation has made it out. I’ve been excited about this book ever since we signed it. Understanding Computation started from Tom’s talk Programming with Nothing ...
  2 weeks ago

• Quantum parallelism and scientific realism

  
  — Authority:
  By Paul Cockshott George Berkeley The philosopher Althusser said that philosophy represents ideology, in particular religious ideology to science, and science to ideology. As science extended its field of explanation, a series of ‘reprise’ operations were carried out by philosophers to either make the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Postcolonial Studies, Digital Humanities, and the Politics of Language

  
  uncomputing — Authority: 88
  Excerpted from a longer essay in progress. Adeline Koh and Roopika Risam recently started an open thread on DHPoco based around an observation by Martha Nell Smith about the politics of race and gender in the digital humanities. I find these topics distinctly connected to questions about language and the ...
  2 weeks ago

• Thinking in Code

  
  — Authority:
  Allen Downey, is a Professor of Computer Science at Olin College of Engineering. He has written three books for us, so far, Think Python, Think Stats, and Think Complexity. I recently got the chance to sit down with him to …
  3 weeks ago

• Silk Pavillion – CNC Deposited Silk & Silkworm Construction at the MIT Media Lab

  
  — Authority:
  Project explores the relationship between digital and biological fabrication by using silk threads laid down by a CNC machine followed by a swarm of 6,500 silkworms spinning flat non-woven silk patches.
  3 weeks ago

• Chicago Harris names Brett Goldstein inaugural Fellow in Urban Science

  
  University of Chicago News Office — Authority: 512
  Brett Goldstein, Chief Data and Information Officer for the City of Chicago, has been named the inaugural recipient of the Fellowship in Urban Science at the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy. He will begin the two-year fellowship on July 1, 2013. Chicago Harris, with generous support from the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Case Study of Joint Online Truck Scheduling and Inventory Management for Multiple Warehouses

  
  — Authority:
  Study about Joint Online Truck Scheduling and Inventory Management for Multiple Warehouses Abstract : For a real world problem transporting pallets between warehouses in order to guarantee suffcient supply for known and additional stochastic demand we propose a solution approach via convex relaxation of an ...
  3 weeks ago

• Evolutionary Computation, Evolvability, and Python

  
  — Authority:
  Funnily enough, an antievolutionist brought a recent article on evolvability to my attention. The paper, “Evolvability Is Inevitable: Increasing Evolvability without the Pressure to Adapt”, by Joel Lehman and Kenneth O. Stanley, is on PLOS One. Here’s their abstract: Why evolvability appears to have increased ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Question is The Thing

  
  — Authority:
  In Defense of The Question Is The Thing I’ve oft been accused of being all vision with little to no practical finishing capability. That is, people see me as a philosopher not a doer. Perhaps a defense of myself and philosophy/approach isn’t necessary and the world is fine to have tacticians and philosophers ...
  3 weeks ago

• Tempus – Parallelized Computation Provides a Breakthrough in Static Timing Analysis

  
  — Authority:
  Cadence today (May 20, 2013) is announcing the Tempus Timing Signoff Solution , a new static timing analysis and closure tool that offers significant speed and capacity advantages over existing solutions. Tempus promises to accelerate signoff timing closure by a matter of weeks. One factor behind this fast ...
  4 weeks ago

Comments about computation