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Power Stage Controllers drive transistors in applications like DC to DC converters, power factor correcting circuits, motor drivers, etc.
Dangerous Prototypes · A new open source hardware project every month
Here is a list of courses and innovative resources to help CS students, faculty, and instructors.
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MSE / NIST SEMINAR
The Master of Software Engineering (MSE) Professional program at Carnegie Mellon University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) invite you to a free, one day seminar on new, industrial strength techniques for systems and software verification. Techniques to be presented and demonstrated are combinatorial testing, the classification tree method, and static analysis.
James Hamilton
James is a Vice President and Distinguished Engineer on the Amazon Web Services team where he is focused on infrastructure efficiency, reliability, and scaling. Prior to AWS, James was architect on the Microsoft Data Center Futures team and before that he was architect on the Live Platform Services team. Prior to that he was General Manager of the Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services team which was formed as part of the FrontBridge Technologies acquisition.
Governments are making increasingly effective use of Ubuntu in large-scale projects, from big data to little schools. There is growing confidence in open source in government quarters, and growing sophistication in how they engage with it.
Mark Shuttleworth
Students who entered Harvard College in September 2008 or earlier are expected to fulfill the requirements of the Core Curriculum unless they switch to the new Program in General Education (described below).
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Conversations with History | University of California, Berkeley
Harry Kreisler is the creator, executive producer and host of the Conversations with History series. Conceived in 1982 by Mr. Kreisler as a way to capture and preserve through conversation and technology the intellectual ferment of our times, Conversations with History includes over 500 interviews.
Computational Complexity
(In this age of lightenting fast communication I suspect you all already know that Judea Pearl won the Turing Award. Even so, it is worth posting about.) Judea Pearl has won the 2011 Turing award (given in 2012).
xkcd: Model Rail
Warning: this comic occasionally contains strong language (which may be unsuitable for children), unusual humor (which may be unsuitable for adults), and advanced mathematics (which may be unsuitable for liberal-arts majors).DataVisualization
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Pex for fun - from Microsoft Research
894,422 clicked ' Ask Pex! ' This puzzle is an interactive Coding Duel.Graham Tackley discusses how The Guardian switched all new development from Java to Scala, why they did that, what were the benefits and the problems, and why they did not choose Python+Django.