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November 16th, 2011 — Introduction to Scientific Computing — Robert Goddard
Come at 6:30pm for pizza supplied by Kongsberg Underwater Technology.
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Computing in science and engineering involves modeling part of the physical world. The inputs could be detailed measurements of the environment, or a randomized set of potential measurements that might characterize some environment in the future. The outputs …
October 19th, 2011 — Asynchronous Tasks in C++11 — Bartosz Milewski
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One of the goals of the new C++11 Standard was to provide support for concurrency, in particular for thread-based concurrency. But threads don’t scale very well. Do C++ tasks, which are created using std::async …
September 21st, 2011 — Beyond Threads — Rick Molloy
Come at 6:30 for pizza provided by Amazon Digital!
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A stroll through actor and task based programming using Visual Studio.
Developing concurrent applications and libraries is hard. Making them robust and inherently scalable is even more challenging. This talk will walk through a small handful of examples of …
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June 15th, 2011 — Avoiding Over and Under Design — Alan Shalloway
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The question of how much design to do up-front on a project is an engaging one. Too much design often results in overkill, complexity, and wasted work. Too little design results in insufficient system structures that require rework, additional …
May 18th, 2011 — C++0x Lambda Functions — Herb Sutter
The Northwest C++ Users Group’ would like to extend a very special welcome to Herb Sutter as the speaker for the May 2011 meeting.
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Why care about C++0x lambda functions? Syntactically, they are nothing but sugar for function objects …
April 20th, 2011: ‘C’ for Microcontrollers, Just Being Efficient — Lloyd Moore
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Microcontrollers represent a highly resource constrained environment. Very small microcontrollers typically have only several KB of program space available and several hundred bytes of memory, in addition to very low clock speeds. This talk will look at how to …
March 16th, 2011 — Debuggers and Mago — Aldo Nunez
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Debuggers are an important tool for helping software engineers get to the root of certain problems. Mago is a graphical debugger dedicated to the D programming language on Windows. It is made up of several …
February 16th, 2011 — The Thought Process of Patterns: Essential Design Skills — Alan Shalloway
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Patterns have been known as “Solutions to Recurring Problems in a Context.” However, they are really more than just that. In fact, Christopher Alexander, the inspirer of design patterns in general and the author of this quote later says at the end …
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