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Writing Fast Matlab Code
This article discusses strategies for improving the speed of Matlab code. Keep in mind that speed depends heavily on the computation platform and that the fastest method on one sys...
Pascal Getreuer,
SIGCSE
2009
ACM
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16 years 12 days ago
A CS unplugged design pattern
"Computer Science (CS) Unplugged"is an educational method for introducing non-specialists to concepts of CS through hands-on activities that don't require the use o...
Tomohiro Nishida, Susumu Kanemune, Yukio Idosaka, ...
PLISP
1989
15 years 3 months ago
Speculative Computation in Multilisp
Speculative computing is a technique to improve the execution time of certain applications by starting some computations before it is known that the computations are required. A s...
Randy B. Osborne
ISPAN
2009
IEEE
15 years 6 months ago
High-Performance Cloud Computing: A View of Scientific Applications
— Scientific computing often requires the availability of a massive number of computers for performing large scale experiments. Traditionally, these needs have been addressed by ...
Christian Vecchiola, Suraj Pandey, Rajkumar Buyya
CIE
2007
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
From Logic to Physics: How the Meaning of Computation Changed over Time
The intuition guiding the de…nition of computation has shifted over time, a process that is re‡ected in the changing formulations of the Church-Turing thesis. The theory of co...
Itamar Pitowsky