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Compilers : Principles, Techniques & Tools – Book Review

Some weeks ago, I finished Compilers : Principles, Techniques & Tools, by Afred V. Aho, Monica S. Lam, Ravi Sethi and Jeffrey D. Ullman. This book is also called the Dragon Book due to the cover.

2 replies - 1365 views - 01/31/12 by Baptiste Wicht in Articles

Bio4j 0.7 Release Gains Cypher and Gremlin Support

Learn about the newest release of Bio4j, which now includes AWS instances from any region, a basic REST server, and support for Cypher and Gremlin.Hi ! I’m happy to announce that the version 0.7 of Bio4j has been released. Check out the wide set of new...

0 replies - 1696 views - 01/13/12 by Pablo Pareja Tobes in Articles

Fixed point iteration

A fixed point for a function is a point at which the value of the function does not change when the function is applied. More formally, x is a fixed point for a given function f if

0 replies - 2728 views - 01/09/12 by Giuseppe Vettigli in Articles

Using Bio4j + Neo4j Graph-algo component for finding protein-protein interaction paths

Hi all ! Today I managed to find some time to check out the Graph-algo component from Neo4j and after playing with it plus Bio4j a bit, I have to say it seems pretty cool. For those who don’t know what I’m talking about, here you have the description you...

0 replies - 2676 views - 12/31/11 by Pablo Pareja Tobes in Articles

Relevance at Cengage: English & Non-English Content in Lucene

In the session we describe relevance improvements we have implemented in our Lucene-based search system for English and Chinese contents and the tests we...

0 replies - 1844 views - 12/17/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Videos

New Programmer's Survival Manual - For CS Grads Looking to Become Professional Devs

A computer science degree doesn’t prepare you to be a programmer. Here’s an excerpt from a blog post I wrote comparing computer scientists and programmers:

1 replies - 4135 views - 12/14/11 by John Cook in Articles

Application Performance Testing: From Conception to Gravestone

0 replies - 1282 views - 12/05/11 by Brandon Nokes in Whitepapers

Why Load Testing From The Cloud Doesn't Work

0 replies - 1240 views - 12/05/11 by Brandon Nokes in Whitepapers

Web Load Testing is Good Business

0 replies - 1290 views - 12/05/11 by Brandon Nokes in Whitepapers

The Language of Computer Science: Algorithm

Like many software developers, I think it’s interesting to know at least something of the history of computer science. Programming languages, for one, offer up genuinely intriguing tales when the history of their making is told. But there are programming...

2 replies - 2136 views - 12/05/11 by Nick Watts in Articles

Can a Search Query Predict Stock Markets?

According to a new paper from the Institute of Complex Systems in Rome, a volume of Yahoo search queries related to companies on the NASDAQ-100 were correlated with the volumes of trades in those same companies in the following days. Here's the abstract:

0 replies - 3047 views - 11/02/11 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News

A Bayesian view of Amazon Resellers

I was buying a used book through Amazon this evening. Three resellers offered the book at essentially the same price. Here were their ratings: 94% positive out of 85,193 reviews98% positive out of 20,785 reviews99% positive out of 840 reviews Which reseller...

0 replies - 3094 views - 11/01/11 by John Cook in Articles