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Friday, October 4, 2002
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Matt Croydon::postneo tells that The 2002 Ig Nobel's have been distributed.
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Fortran 2000 draft is out for commenting -- Comment()
I and two of my colleagues have written a Fortran 90/95 textbook, which is now in its third edition. The textbook is written in Finnish and available in PDF format. The latest edition contains an appendix about the Fortran 2000 standard. Thus, it is nice to note Slashdot telling that Fortran 2000 Committee Draft is out for commenting. Fortran 90/95 has been extensively used by my colleagues in scientific computing. Of course, Fortran is not suitable for all computing tasks, but for numerical computations it is a powerful tool, and still quite widely used. I have also organized here in Finland about 10 courses on Fortran 90/95 programming. It may well be that our textbook will see a fourth edition, updated for Fortran 2000. It will take 2-3 years until the new standard is implemented in Fortran compilers, so we have time until we need to study the next standard.
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Lecturing about modeling and optimization -- Comment()
Today I lectured two hours about Modeling and Optimization: Tools and Examples at the Helsinki University of Technology. I published the slides in Adobe Acrobat PDF format on the web (530 kB, 49 slides). Most of my presentation was based on course material I have used previously, but I managed to include some novel research topics in drug discovery and biosciences. Most of the case examples came from projects at work, and I also borrowed some existing transparencies. (These are not included in the PDF file.)
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Black hole outburst looks 'faster than light': "Resembling cannon shots from a ship at night, one toward shore and the other away, two X-ray jets streaming from a black hole have been observed during their entire trajectories for the first time." [Google Technology News]
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