And please, can we quit calling them "computer security researchers"? Well, Matt Bishop is actually a "computer security researcher" with a PhD, papers, and books to prove it. And the first sentence of the friendly article actually did use your coveted term.
Between 1998 and now, SGI has had to rent space out to Google to stay afloat, has been delisted, gone through at least threeseparatedownsizings (including several executive changes), and has filed for bankruptcy. The point is, SGI has tried the "sue to keep afloat" pattern before, and it didn't work then. I doubt very much it'll work now.
SGI produces fast Linux boxes, for sure, but it competes in a very hard market.
Anyone else remember they gave NVidia the same treatment back in the heady day's of '98? This is nothing new for SGI. "Rattle the cage, and try to stave off the end with another lawsuit." How did that last one work for SGI? Not so well....
The main advantages of OLED epaper is lack of eyestrain for long term reading. In addition, OLEDs can get much higher DPI resolution for lower power drain.
Now, that being said, this Iliad seems pretty poor on resolution: It has a stated DPI of 160 (the Sony has 170, which isn't that much better). This means you have to hold it at 105 cm (3.5 ft) to get maximal resolution on your retina (assuming perfect 20/20 vision). Now, a PDA generally does worse here (needs to be at 204 cm [6 ft]). Note, that average reading distance is about 30 cm. There is a long way to go (about a 5 times increase in dpi) before we get to good print resolution.
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Google, ILM, and NASA all use Python. See the Python Quotes page.
This is the Stanford spinoff of the Polaris project presented at IEEE InfoVis several times over the past few years. Chris Stolte was the main student involved, and a CiteSeer search on his name will turn up most of the related work. To summarize: The goal of the work was to provide a visual programming environment (using a spreadsheet-like layout) to presenting data in multi-dimensional databases. It uses some sound (a.k.a., proven) results to create initial intiutive mappings of this data. See the papers for more details.
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Between 1998 and now, SGI has had to rent space out to Google to stay afloat, has been delisted, gone through at least three separate downsizings (including several executive changes), and has filed for bankruptcy. The point is, SGI has tried the "sue to keep afloat" pattern before, and it didn't work then. I doubt very much it'll work now. SGI produces fast Linux boxes, for sure, but it competes in a very hard market.
Anyone else remember they gave NVidia the same treatment back in the heady day's of '98? This is nothing new for SGI. "Rattle the cage, and try to stave off the end with another lawsuit." How did that last one work for SGI? Not so well....
The main advantages of OLED epaper is lack of eyestrain for long term reading. In addition, OLEDs can get much higher DPI resolution for lower power drain.
Now, that being said, this Iliad seems pretty poor on resolution: It has a stated DPI of 160 (the Sony has 170, which isn't that much better). This means you have to hold it at 105 cm (3.5 ft) to get maximal resolution on your retina (assuming perfect 20/20 vision). Now, a PDA generally does worse here (needs to be at 204 cm [6 ft]). Note, that average reading distance is about 30 cm. There is a long way to go (about a 5 times increase in dpi) before we get to good print resolution.
Google, ILM, and NASA all use Python. See the Python Quotes page.
As mentioned, the entire General Purpose GPU (GPGPU or GP2U) community has been on this a while. They recently put on a SIGGRAPH 2004 Course and there is the GPU Gems book which as some GPGPU in it.
This is the Stanford spinoff of the Polaris project presented at IEEE InfoVis several times over the past few years. Chris Stolte was the main student involved, and a CiteSeer search on his name will turn up most of the related work. To summarize: The goal of the work was to provide a visual programming environment (using a spreadsheet-like layout) to presenting data in multi-dimensional databases. It uses some sound (a.k.a., proven) results to create initial intiutive mappings of this data. See the papers for more details.