Computist Quiz [questions for programmers, from CS, US Santa Barbara]]

http://www.hackersdelight.org/quiz.pdf The Subj. Try to solve the questions in your head, w/out using paper and pencil. [from AVVA http://avva.livejournal.com/ ]

Computist Quiz [questions for programmers, from CS, US Santa Barbara]]

http://www.hackersdelight.org/quiz.pdf The Subj. Try to solve the questions in your head, w/out using paper and pencil. [from AVVA http://avva.livejournal.com/ ]

Determining computational complexity from characteristic `phase transitions', "Nature'1999 , .PDF

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/selman/papers/pdf/99.nature.phase.pdf an article in Nature journal for 1999 about P=NP problem

Hard and soft real time [LWN.net] -- links to papers on realtime scheduling

http://lwn.net/Articles/413255/ [LWN comment by Jim Shewmaker, a security researcher]

dga: Notes from Google "Flash" talk at UCSD non-volatile memories workshop

http://dga.livejournal.com/44132.html a lot of interesting details about using flash drives as cache and high-perf block io devices (notes from google talk given at UCSD)

Rest in Peas: The Unrecognized Death of Speech Recognition - robertfortner's posterous

http://robertfortner.posterous.com/the-unrecognized-death-of-speech-recognition An excellent article providing an overview and history of speech recognition technologies. For geeks looking into more tech details, pls see http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1639412&cid;=32079936

Document Image Content Inventories (algorithms)

http://www.cse.lehigh.edu/~baird/Pubs/drr07.pdf “We report an investigation into strategies, algorithms, and software tools for document image content extraction

The different attitudes of computer scientists and economists - A Computer Scientist in a Business School

http://behind-the-enemy-lines.blogspot.com/2009/09/different-attitudes-of-computer.html interesting article (and comments, yes, read comments) about what data models actually mean

The Old New Thing : Tales from the interview: Can you rotate this two-dimensional array?

http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2008/09/02/8918130.aspx for(i=0;i<N;i++) for(j=0;j<M;j++) b[j][N-i]=a[i][j];

Memory Translation and Segmentation : Gustavo Duarte

http://duartes.org/gustavo/blog/post/memory-translation-and-segmentation very goom sum-up about memory mechanism in modern x86 machines. For more elabored and detailed info