Saturday, April 9, 2011

Wednesday, March 30, 2011

Oracle vs. Google : Who will own Java?

"in August, Oracle sued Google over Google’s use of Java. And now the father of Java is on Google’s side. There has been a lot of speculation around that lawsuit, including the claim that Google will end up owning Java as a result of the lawsuit." (click here for more) The Oracle v. Google Complaint

The Essence of Chaos

I just completed reading "The Essence of Chaos" by Edward Lorenz. It provides great explanation of deterministic behaviour, what is chaotic behavior, bifurcations, fractals, lyapunov stability, manifolds, butterfly effect, strange attractors, and more! I highly recommend this for anyone interested in chaos!

Saturday, March 12, 2011

Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Eric Carle Books

My daughter's favorite books are Eric Carle books. She loves The Very Hungry Caterpillar, The Grouchy Ladybug, and The Mixed-Up Chameleon. Barnes & Noble Storytime this Saturday is featuring The Very Hungry Caterpillar at the 3600 Stevens Creek location at 11 am!

Tuesday, March 8, 2011

Concurrency and Parallelism

Some informative videos by Dr. Douglas Eadline explaining concurrency vs parallelism: