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November 21st, 2012 — TouchDevelop: Tips and Types for Programming via Touch — Tom Ball
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TouchDevelop brings a modern programming experience to devices where touch is the primary input mechanism, such as smartphones and tablets. The TouchDevelop environment does this through an interlocking set of features, including:
- a …
October 17th, 2012 — Casablanca: C++ in the Cloud — Steve Gates
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In this talk, I’ll introduce the Microsoft incubation project Casablanca, the aim of which is to help C++ developers productively take advantage of cloud-based computing without sacrificing performance. Through a series of …
September 19th, 2012 — Functional Patterns in C++ — Bartosz Milewski
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We are familiar with at least some of the GoF patterns like Visitor or Factory. Less known are some very powerful abstract patterns used primarily in functional languages. I will show you how …
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June 20th, 2012 — LKRhash: The design of a scalable hashtable — George V. Reilly
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LKRhash is a hashtable that scales to multiple processors and millions of items. LKRhash was invented at Microsoft in 1997 by Paul Larson, Murali Krishnan, and George Reilly, and has been used in …
May 16th, 2012 — An Introduction to Microsoft’s C++ Accelerated Massive Parallelism – Don McCrady
Come at 6:45 for pizza sponsored by Randstad Technologies.
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Microsoft’s C++ AMP (Accelerated Massive Parallelism) is a C++ programming model and language extension that allows any C++ developer to take advantage of the massive parallelism available in today’s GPU’s. It offers a developer-friendly, lightweight, and …
April 18th, 2012 — Essential Skills for the Agile Developer – Alan Shalloway
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Many developers have been suddenly thrown into developing code in stages whereas they used to be able to do bigger designs up front. Many people tell them to do test-driven development and emergent design while ignoring the fact that their work with legacy systems may prevent such actions. In …
March 21st, 2012 — A Multi-Core Algorithmic Differentiation Benchmarking System — Brad Bell
Please join us at 6:45 for pizza sponsored by Summit Group Solutions.
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Implementing code that is fast in a multi-core environment is one of the challenges of modern software engineering.
To meet this challenge, future Automatic Differentiation (AD) software will have to avoid excessive synchronization barriers between threads …
February 15th, 2012 — Expressing Parallel Patterns in Modern C++ — Rahul V. Patil
Come at 6:30pm for pizza supplied by Amazon Digital.
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We’ll do a lap around the most commonly applicable parallel patterns. The goal of the talk is to map each of these parallel patterns to equivalent C++ code, while taking advantage of the modern constructs in the language …
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