Links on Mark Gottscho, Ph.D.

Anandtech's Look at Altera OpenCL SDK for FPGAs

Tue, 22 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000

If you’re into hardware acceleration and heterogeneous computing, this is a good read. Currently, FPGAs are not commonly used by programmers to accelerate their workloads due to the difficulty of hardware design compared to software. OpenCL support potentially changes the game by allowing FPGA accelerators to be used in a manner similar to GPGPUs. This will be interesting!

Richard Hamming's 1986 Talk at Bell Labs: 'You and Your Research'

Thu, 17 Oct 2013 00:00:00 +0000

Today, while working on my fellowship application, I was pondering the nature of graduate research and how one comes up with truly novel ideas. My friend and colleague, Lucas Wanner, sent me this transcription of a talk Richard Hamming gave many years ago on how one does great research. I found it enlightening; hopefully you will, too.