On June, we held the 1st International Workshop on Practical Synthesis for Concurrent Systems (PSY 2009). In this workshop, we experimented with recording all the talks with a Vado HD (recommended by our gadget-guru Noam Rinetzky). The results are definitely far from a professional-level recording, but the cost of the entire setup was only a few hundred bucks.
The resulting videos are available here.
I think that the main lesson from these videos is to get a better tripod, preferably one with a bubble level.
The exact setup used for producing these videos:
Creative Vado HD 720p Camcorder with 8 GB and 2x Digital Zoom
Creative Labs Battery Charger for Vado and Vado HD Camcorders
Creative Labs Rechargeable Lithium Ion Battery for Vado HD Camcorder
Digipower TP-S010 flexible and sturdy ultra compact Mini Tripod
Handbrake video transcoder (thanks to Yoad for the reference)
Quicktime Pro for editing the videos (yes, you will have to edit the videos)
Vimeo Plus for hosting the videos
Total cost: ~$300 including 1yr of plus membership on Vimeo
Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Monday, April 20, 2009
QVM Word Clouds
Here's some more word cloud joy, now for the QVM OOPLSA'08 paper.
and for the QVM Chameleon PLDI'09 paper
and for the QVM Chameleon PLDI'09 paper
Algorithms for Concurrent Data Structures
Word clouds seem to be all the rage lately. Playing with some clouds for a recent talk, I found them to actually provide an interesting summary of research papers. For example, here's a word cloud for our PLDI'08 paper on derivation of highly-concurrent linearizable data structure algorithms.
Apart from the emphasis of terms like "true", this is a pretty decent summary of what's going on in the paper --- concurrent algorithms, linearizability, and a lot of dance around atomic blocks, restarts, and the pointers curr and pred.
Apart from the emphasis of terms like "true", this is a pretty decent summary of what's going on in the paper --- concurrent algorithms, linearizability, and a lot of dance around atomic blocks, restarts, and the pointers curr and pred.
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Irad Yavneh: Megilat Hamuamad 2005
A recent visit to Israel exposed me to this brilliant piece (in Hebrew). There are a few subsequent performances by Irad that are equally good. You can find them all at http://www.youtube.com/user/shaulm
Thursday, August 21, 2008
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Vista Pains
I really wanted to like Vista. When I got my Thinkpad X61 Tablet, it came with Vista installed by default. Ignoring the negative Vista press and applying wild optimism, I was sure that this is the beginning of a wonderful friendship. Unfortunately, this was not meant to be. Not only that Vista crashes left and right, it is always somebody else's fault: "Problem is caused by Intel Graphics Driver", "Problem is caused by Cygwin", and my all time favorite "This problem is being researched".
The utility may be called "Solve problems on your computer", but in the several months I had Vista, it did not help me find a solution to a single problem. All it really does is allocate blame, elsewhere.
To see how bad things are, here's a report from the performance and reliability monitor.
As you can see by the red markers, almost no day goes by without some sort of a failure. In some days, there are multiple failures. I already started booting to my Ubuntu on most days, but even for my sparse use of windows, I will probably roll back to XP soon.
The utility may be called "Solve problems on your computer", but in the several months I had Vista, it did not help me find a solution to a single problem. All it really does is allocate blame, elsewhere.
To see how bad things are, here's a report from the performance and reliability monitor.
As you can see by the red markers, almost no day goes by without some sort of a failure. In some days, there are multiple failures. I already started booting to my Ubuntu on most days, but even for my sparse use of windows, I will probably roll back to XP soon.
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