Science Libraries

Community center offers science experience (The Ambler Gazette)

9 Jul 2008

Local students are examining the genetic makeup of their own fingerprints at GlaxoSmithKline's Science in the Summer program at the North Hills Community Library this week.

Presented By: Observations from Parallel Sorting Part I: the subtleties of tbb::parallel_reduce (Wired News)

9 Jul 2008

   In this series of postings, I discuss two common sorting algorithms, mergesort and quicksort, and highlight some of the interesting issues that arise when creating parallel implementations using TBB.  In all cases we’ll assume that, like STL’s std::sort, the input to the sort is a pair of RandomAccessIterators begin and end that denote the beginning [...] ...

Library names Dean Krafft chief technology strategist (Cornell News Service)

9 Jul 2008

Recognizing technology's vital role in academic libraries, Cornell University Library has named computer scientist Dean Krafft to a new senior-level chief technology strategist position.