What would it really take to communicate from a planet to the Starship Enterprise? Find out how Intel researchers and NASA are working to develop inter-planetary communication using Delay Tolerant Networking. Vint Cerf and Kevin Fall describe what the obstacles...

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Oh yeah! - the Penny Arcade eXpo - There are few conventions that pull together gaming communities at this level, whether it’s consoles, hand-helds, or full bore PC gaming - the PAX community holds one thing true “they LOVE games!”...

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I hope you're enjoying the recent discussion of technology and stress. Below is the second guest blog post written by one of Intel's social scientists. One of Intel's anthropologists, Ken Anderson, discusses the way that people use technology similarly to...

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We've completed the first problems in the Intel Threading Challenge 2010 contest. Did you enter a solution code? If not, there's still time to get in and win the big prize.

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When a school burns to the ground it tends to stir our own childhood memories of where we went to school, what we learned and the teachers who taught us, and of schoolmates we shared with in the classroom and...

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After decades of sturm und drang over whether or not to include parallelism in the undergraduate computer science curriculum, we can announce definitively that battle is over. Parallelism is here, and it already abides. Fortunately, we are not left staring into the abyss. Academia, Industry and Developers are cooperating to help define what [...]

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Intel Fellow, Radia Perlman, has been awarded the highest honor from ACM’s Special Interest Group on Data Communications (SIGCOMM) for pioneering contributions to Internet routing and bridging protocols. I had the good fortune to meet with Radia to talk about...

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(note: this is slide 5 of the nulstein plog) In an Agatha Christie novel, this slide would really go at the end of the talk, everything would finally get revealed only in the end, leaving the reader to play detective, picking up clues as the story unfolds... But that's not what I want, this slide goes [...]

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Seismic Duck

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I'm not really big on "shopping" as a sport. Some people love to wander the up and down the aisles of Costco on a "treasure hunt" to see new and unexpected items for sale or wander from store to store in a shopping mall.  I'm more one of those "hunters" who targets what I need, [...]

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I just published a post at my other blog about Intel's Parallel Studio for OpenMP and MPI applications. My Conclusion is that this tool is useful for OpenMP (and TBB) but not for MPI. You are welcome to read it from here (http://telzur.blogspot.com/2010/08/testing-intels-parallel-studio.html). Starting from the forthcoming semester I am going to incorporate Intel's Parallel Studio [...]

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It looks like Cisco has issued both an end-of-sale and end-of-life announcement for their Cisco ACE XML Gateway. In response, the SOA Expressway team has teed-up a special offer for Cisco customers looking to move to replacement XML Gateway. This is an interesting development to be sure, and it probably signals that Cisco is seeing less demand [...]

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In recent weeks, I have been working on MeshCentral, a central web site for managing all our computers. I got lots of features added in and more to come but I wanted to make the web site more user friendly by adding pop-up tool tips as certain places. I also wanted it to not be [...]

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(note: this is slide 4 of the nulstein plog) I like calling the time when I started writing games "the good old days", it was in the nineties, DOOM's era, I had quit doing IT development work for hire to join a crazy team, doing creative stuff, pushing machines and people to the limits of what [...]

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A few days ago I received my iPhone 4 and I absolutely love it! The setup was pretty straightforward and easy to navigate. So far the only thing that took any length of time was the necessary step of downloading iTunes for the device which is primarily used for syncing contacts, email, and the [...]

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Today I added a new feature in MeshCentral that allows an administrator to make some of the state of their computers public for anyone to see. Obviously, this is not enabled by default, but when enabled MeshCentral gives you a link to a publicly accessible web page you can share with anyone. Now your friends [...]

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When Intel’s Ken Brown says he’s doing a deep dive, that’s precisely what he means. Ken—he’s the guy in the black flippers—has been spearheading a remarkable undersea photography project. (And Intel support has been pivotal. More on that in a...

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To all the folks here who are looking at game creation on AppUp (or elsewhere) we wanted to share our recent experience with the Unity Game Engine. We'll show a little video here but in short: UNITY ROCKS! read more

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