New Scientist (05/10/10) Thomson, Rebecca
Web Science: Exploring the Network Without Guesswork. Shadbolt will co-direct, with Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee, a new Institute of Web Science at Southampton in collaboration with the University of Oxford. Web science needs researchers from a wide range of backgrounds to assess the technical, social, legal, and political forces that [...]
CNet (05/06/10) Fried, Ina
Microsoft’s annual TechFair visited Silicon Valley so that Microsoft product teams and local research labs could see the latest developments. One spotlighted TechFair project seeks to supply more data to researchers studying strategies for protecting fish in San Francisco Bay Area waterways by using computers to mash up various data sources and [...]
InformationWeek (05/03/10) Montalbano, Elizabeth
The U.S. Department of Commerce’s i6 Challenge gives innovative thinkers the chance to win up to $1 million in prize money. The government wants to find better ways to commercialize new technology. “How well America moves ideas out of the research lab and into the marketplace will help determine whether we remain [...]
Developing a Sudoku Solver program is perhaps the the only thing which is more interesting than solving a Sudoku puzzle.
The java code given below solves the puzzles in 4 steps :
1. If in any box, only 1 digit can be filled up, find that digit, fill up the box and proceed.
2. If a particular [...]
OpenMp has been around us for quite some time now and now we all know how simple it is to incorporate OpenMp pragmas to make the program run faster. Here a sample C code for matrix multiplication is been presented. The code contains the same operations, one being processed serially and the other one being [...]
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