I am troubled by the dominance of Google Scholar as both an academic search engine and as a proxy means for evaluating academic productivity, especially when viewed in light of its lack of transparency and unclear governance. It *certainly* troubled me when Google Scholar randomly blocked my IP address with no discernible recourse. TIL about https://www.base-search.net/, some much-needed competition in this space. #academic #search #publishing

Happy new year from the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_F._Udvar-Hazy_Center! :) Arrived back in the US into Dulles airport, and... #blackbird #sr71

It is an embarrassment that the Association for Computing Machinery (but notably *not* SIAM or the AMS, phew!) joined Elsevier and other commercial publishers in trying to torpedo a requirement on open-access publishing of federally funded research. https://bit.ly/34H1vbz

The call for contributions (talks and posters) for SciPy2020 is open now. Submit your work! Together with Laurie Stephey, I am chairing the "High Performance Python" track. See you in Austin in July! https://www.scipy2020.scipy.org/talk-poster-presentations #scipy #conference #hpc #austin #hpcpy

If you are looking to register for CS555 (Numerical Methods for PDEs) with me in the Spring of 2020: The CSE510 crosslist is open now for Engineering students, CS555 will open to campus on Dec 12. 🎓 👨‍🏫 🏫 https://courses.illinois.edu/schedule/2020/spring/CS/555

Help Mozilla collect/confirm voice samples to make open-source speech recognition/synthesis competitive! https://voice.mozilla.org/ - https://github.com/mozilla/DeepSpeech/releases/v0.6.0

Illinois CS is hiring this year - with numerous open tenure track positions in ALL areas. Apply now!

https://cs.illinois.edu/about-us/faculty-positions

It appears that I was wrong. I no longer believe that Intel's CPU OpenCL runtime is open-source software. The "build instructions" point back to the binary release to download the runtime. 😡😩 https://bit.ly/2kky2mO

Open source in academia, or really anywhere: "Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Write a program to fish for him and you maintain it for a lifetime.” - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02046-0

Good advice from Denis Bakhvalov: How to get consistent results when benchmarking on Linux - https://easyperf.net/blog/2019/08/02/Perf-measurement-environment-on-Linux #linux #hpc #benchmarking

Want to learn things like this? Look for the next edition of my HPC abstractions class: https://bit.ly/hpcabstr-f18

This Thursday (Aug 1), Matt Wala successfully defended his PhD. Congratulations Matt! 🎉 🎓 📖 #uiuc #scicomp #numpde #qbx

It looks like the Intel CPU #OpenCL implementation / ICD is (a) not dead (b) now open source https://github.com/intel/llvm/releases/tag/oclcpuexp-2019.8.7.0.0725_rel 😀🎉

New paper submitted (actually a while ago): A Fast Algorithm with Error Bounds for Quadrature by Expansion - https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.04070. We call it #gigaqbx #qbx #fmm #numpde #scicomp