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torcs edit / delete

The Open Racing Car Simulator -- a 3D driving game that's easy to write AI modules for. An occam interface for this could make some fun CO631-or-whatever-it's-now-called projects.

to ai driving games software teaching to-package ... on 28 July 2009

distributed systems primer :: snax edit / delete

Some basic papers on distributed programming. (Most are rather slight, though.)

to concurrency distributed message-passing research teaching ... on 05 May 2009

Main Page - CERCS Multi-Core Repository edit / delete

Teaching materials (although you can't get at the slides...) from Georgia Tech's Intel-related multicore course.

to concurrency cs multicore multicore-msc teaching ... on 04 May 2009

The SR Programming Language edit / delete

A multi-paradigm language for teaching concurrent programming. They have a generalised idea of interactions between processes which is probably worth stealing ideas from.

to concurrrency language-design research teaching ... on 02 May 2009

MIT’s Introduction to Algorithms, Lectures 20 and 21: Parallel Algorithms - good coders code, great reuse edit / delete

MIT lectures on parallel algorithms.

to concurrency research teaching ... on 10 March 2009

The Lecture System in Teaching Science edit / delete

The "Gutenberg approach" to lecturing: essentially, providing the students with a carefully-pitched custom textbook, then using lecture time for freeform discussion rather than conventional lectures. This'd make a good T&LDG topic.

to research teaching tldg ... on 07 February 2009

A Disciplinary Commons in Computing edit / delete

The subject of SAF's seminar yesterday: a big collaborative effort to study how we teach CS -- and learn from other peoples' approaches. The portfolios make fascinating reading.

to cs teaching ... on 16 January 2008

Computers edit / delete

An excellent retrocomputing-oriented guide to "how computers work". Has a particularly good page on different floating-point formats.

to architecture computing cs floating-point retrocomputing teaching ... on 05 March 2007

John Baez's Stuff edit / delete

Some useful advice for teachers and researchers, and a lot of randomly entertaining stuff.

to amusements research teaching ... on 17 November 2006

Computational Complexity: French Universities edit / delete

An utterly unflattering description of the French standard-level university system.

to france research teaching ... on 20 August 2006