Sophie's raison d'être is to enable people to create robust, elegant rich-media, networked documents without recourse to programming, it promises to open up the world of multimedia authoring to a wide range of creative people.
provides a software development platform that allows developers to take advantage of a new generation of high performance processors. These new processors, including GPUs, the IBM Cell, and other multi-core processors
Portable PRECISE tracing collector for C++ (as oposed to popular Hans Boehm CONSERVATIVE collector). It should not mess other data with collected pointers ! And thats a feat! Smieciuch defines smart pointer classes which behave like normal C/C++ pointers
concerning "Lock-Free" and "Wait-Free" algorithms and data structures. These techniques allow concurrent update of shared data structures without resorting to critical sections protected by operating system managed locks.
by Richard Walters ("For the People" magazine) "Physicist Bruce DePalma has a 100 kilowatt generator, which he invented, sitting in his garage. It could power his whole house, but if he turns it on, the government may confiscate it. "
lists potential future Earth impact events that the JPL Sentry System has detected based on currently available observations. Click on the object designation to go to a page with full details on that object.
online payment system that sidesteps credit cards completely. Unlike PayPal, Dwolla doesn't take a percentage of the transaction. It only asks for $0.25 whether it's moving $1 or $1,000.
a freely available commonsense knowledgebase and natural-language-processing toolkit which supports many practical textual-reasoning tasks over real-world documents right out-of-the-box (without additional statistical training)
a tool that automatically converts existing Java-language code into Microsoft Visual C# for developers who want to move existing applications to the .NET Framework.