A fistful of papers
2009-08-07 / 12:55 / dave
Like many dilemmas, this one results from either/or thinking. A third alternative is to try both methods in parallel and just use whichever result arrives first.
Conal Elliott, Simply efficient functional reactivity [PDF]
Peter Van Roy’s excellent Programming Paradigms for Dummies: What Every Programmer Should Know [PDF] lead me to reread–or I suppose “read instead of just skim”–Conal Elliott’s 2008 FRP paper. It’s interesting, but a little too wrapped up in Haskell type insanity for me understand deeply. I did like the above quote though, it’s such a simple reminder that multicore is changing programming.
Speaking of changing programming, Optical information processing in
Bose–Einstein condensates [PDF] is a great paper by Dr. Lene Vestergaard Hau. You may remember Dr. Hau from 1999 when she slowed light to 38 mph and from 2007 when she transformed light into matter and back again. Smart cookie, that one.
She’s got more papers on her lab web page.