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APtBS reviews late March 2011

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Two recipes: Italian Cheese Cake & Horseradish Hasbrowns

Old building near Warsaw, VA

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APtBS in Baltimore & Atlanta, March 2011

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Going from Java to C++

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I’ll be teaching CPSC 230, Computer Science II, in the Fall. We use C++ in that course and students have had a one-semester course, Computer Science I, using Java. Here are soem links about going form Java to C++.

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Social Media’s Dark Side & Image Citation – From Chronicle of Higher Education

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 Two interesting links form the Chronicle of Higher Education in mid-March 2011. The one on image citation looks especially interesting.

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2011 03 21 ernie About the Internet and the Web
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APtBS at SXSW 2011

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Another way to get around censorship

Maple blossoms, back yard, home, falmouth, va

2011 03 19 ernie Interesting Web Sites
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A Place to Bury Strangers SXSW 2011

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Here is a collection of links from A Place to Bury Strangers latest appearance at SXSW.

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Interview for San Antonio before SXSW 2011

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An Agglomeration of links for 2011-03-11

Autum leaves on the beech tree, back yard home in Falmouth, VALinks to ways to spend your money while traveling, a couple of links to the announcement of the 2011 Turing award, and a related link to a site about NP completeness

  • Is There a Right Way to Spend Money When Traveling? – Practical Traveler – NYTimes.com
    Repeatedly confounded by these questions, my wife, Joan, and I started to compile an informal rule book for what we call “econ-travel.” Rules are breakable, of course — and many of these have been — but by having them, I find myself less caught up in the decision-by-decision anguish of what to do.
    (tags: travel responsible)
  • ACM Turing Award Goes to Innovator in Machine Learning — Association for Computing Machinery
    Over the past 30 years, Leslie Valiant has made fundamental contributions to many aspects of theoretical computer science. His work has opened new frontiers, introduced ingenious new concepts, and presented results of great originality, depth, and beauty. Time and again, Valiant’s work has literally defined or transformed the computer science research landscape.
    (tags: acm ai turingAward)
  • Harvard professor gets computing’s ‘Nobel’ – The Boston Globe
    “Harvard University professor Leslie G. Valiant, a pioneer in the field of artificial intelligence, has been awarded the 2010 A.M. Turing Award, the most prestigious prize in the field of computer science. Valiant’s research into processes to make computers reason as humans do laid the groundwork for applications ranging from e-mail spam filters to IBM’s Watson computer system, which last month bested human competitors on the game show “Jeopardy!’’”
    (tags: acm computer turing computerscience ai)
  • Sharp-P-complete
    #P-complete, pronounced “sharp P complete,” is a complexity class in complexity theory. A problem is #P-complete if and only if it is in #P, and every problem in #P can be reduced to it by a polynomial-time counting reduction, i.e. a polynomial-time Turing reduction relating the cardinalities of solution sets. Very often the reductions are “parsimonious,” i.e., they preserve the number of solutions.
    (tags: computation np-complete)
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