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Submission + - AMD releases register specs for R5xx and R6xx (arstechnica.com) 2

Submitted by ianare on Sunday September 23, 2007 @11:05AM

ianare writes: AMD has recently released register specifications for the ATI Radeon R5xx and R6xx graphic devices. This allows the OSS community to develop 2D (and theoretically 3D) drivers, given time. In fact, engineers from Novell have released a first alpha quality Open Source driver which currently supports initial mode settings. Although current work is focused on 2D, rather than 3D acceleration, this type of information sharing could conceivably lead to an OSS 3D driver.

Submission + - NYT & Economist articles on Algorithms (nytimes.com)

Submitted by Soylent Mauve on Sunday September 23, 2007 @10:59AM

Soylent Mauve writes: The trend toward data- and algorithm-driven tuning of business operations has gotten a lot of attention recently — check out the recent articles in the New York Times and the Economist. It looks like computer scientists, especially those with machine learning training, are getting their day in the sun.

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