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Herb Sutter on "Moore's End"->

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00_NOP writes "Over a Dr Dobb's website, Herb Sutter discusses what he calls "Moore's End", in other words the effective end of the popular interpretation of Moore's Law — that computing power doubles every 18 — 24 months — and tells us all not to panic but to adapt our development styles to a world of multicore heterogeneity and to embrace parallel computing as it is never going away. At my own blog I also suggest we should be focusing more than ever on better algorithms in response to Moore'sEnd/Peak Silicon. Of course, if we could prove P=NP maybe we could get a second helping of what Sutter calls a "free lunch" — ever faster computing. Otherwise the future looks as though it will be hard work."
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Education

Computing not to be taught in flagship school in E->

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00_NOP writes "About two weeks ago the British education secretary waxed lyrical about the prospects and opportunities for pupils in English schools that will come from his plans to reform the schools computing curriculum.
This week, though, it has been revealed that his department is to spend some of its money — in short supply because of spending cuts — on a new school that will not teach computing because it is only a "skill" and not suitable for an institution that aims to copy the ethos of England's top public (ie fee paying) schools. Languages are to be taught, though: why they are something more than a mere "skill" is not so clear.
The headteacher of the new school is Katharine Birbalsingh, who quit her previous job after launching a very public attack on the education system at the 2010 conference of the ruling Conservative Party."
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Math

Forget the hardware, improve the algorithm->

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00_NOP writes "A new algorithm for fast fourier transforms (FFT) — which promises a 10x improvement on current methods and which could therefore have wide application in mobile and wireless technologies and lossy compression more generally — is about to be revealed. When algorithms are driving speed improvements faster than Moore's Law why are we so obsessed with hardware, and how will the patient situation affect this latest discovery in applied maths?"
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Android

Intel Announces Medfield Smartphone SoC, Design Wi->

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MojoKid writes "After years of work and a few false starts, Intel is finally ready to take the plunge into the smartphone market. At the CES keynote tonight, the CPU giant is officially launching Medfield, the 32nm smartphone SoC. The design is targeted to take Atom into the next generation of smartphones (and a few tablets). The chip, now officially named the Atom Z2460, is ready for primetime. Motorola, LG and Lenovo are all announcing products today. Lenovo has its K800, a device intended for the Chinese market and sold by China Unicom, while Motorola has announced a multi-part deal with Intel for smartphones and tablets."
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Education

IT curriculum for English schools to be scrapped->

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00_NOP writes "UK education secretary Michael Gove is today (11 Jan) to announce that the "Information and Communications Technology" (ICT) curriculum for schools in England (he does not have this power for the other parts of the UK) is to be scrapped. The English ICT curriculum has been attacked from all sides in recent weeks and IT business leaders have led the charge in calling for the teaching of computer science as opposed to the current emphasis on how to use a word processor or spreadsheet or other commonly used applications. But given that the curriculum will be scrapped without a replacement, will this make things better or worse?"
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Intel

Lenovo, Motorola making Intel smartphones->

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nk497 writes "Intel has unveiled a Lenovo-made smartphone will be released this spring running its Atom chip in China, to be followed by more from Motorola, released more widely in the second half of the year. The smartphones mark Intel's first real successes in the mobile market, and will run Android. CEO Paul Otellini revealed a reference design phone and tablet at CES, both running Android and featuring super-long battery life."
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The Courts

Righthaven complains about defendants lawyers 'sco->

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Tootech writes "A new round of name-calling erupted Monday between copyright lawsuit filer Righthaven LLC of Las Vegas and one of its creditors.

Righthaven, the copyright enforcement partner of the Las Vegas Review-Journal and formerly of the Denver Post, has for months been in survival mode as it tries to block creditors from seizing its assets.

Creditors — including people sued by Righthaven for copyright infringement but who then defeated Righthaven in court — have won $216,335 in judgments against Righthaven. That’s money they spent on legal fees successfully fighting Righthaven.

In the latest round of legal wrangling, Righthaven filed motions in federal court in Las Vegas on Monday complaining about what it called the “scorched earth judgment enforcement efforts” of Righthaven defendant Wayne Hoehn and his attorneys.

After on June 20 winning dismissal of the Righthaven lawsuit against him — alleging infringement of a copyright for a Review-Journal column — Hoehn was awarded $34,045 in legal fees against Righthaven on Aug. 15.

Righthaven has asked the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco to reverse both the dismissal of its suit against Hoehn and the award of his legal fees.

Righthaven, in the meantime, complained in Monday’s court filing that Hoehn’s attorneys at Randazza Legal Group in Las Vegas had inflated the $34,045 to $63,720 to cover Randazza’s judgment collection efforts through Nov. 1."
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Technology

Remembering the first digital watches->

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00_NOP writes "This has been the first week back at school after Christmas for my own children and this article on LED watches has taken me right back to the same week in 1974, when they were what all the cool kids (ie not me) were wearing when they turned up at school after the Christmas holidays. Anybody have similar memories of this or other tech Christmas trends? What has it been this week? An iPhone or iPad? They seem to have the similar match of hype and price as the LED watches anyway!"
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