On Saturday 4th October The Performance Corporation puckered up and gave Dublin Kiss. Our top-secret flash mob theatre event brought the ILAC Shopping Centre to a standstill when unsuspecting shoppers witnessed a mysterious outbreak of kissing couples in the main concourse. To the haunting sound of the song Llorando, bystanders watched as apparent strangers came together, drawn by some strange emotional force and began to kiss. The best thing was some of the passers-by joined in! Then, as quickly as it had begun, the kissing couples parted, melting once more into the crowd.Details of the event were kept top secret and the almost 100 brave actors who signed up for the show had no idea until lunchtime on Saturday where the performance would happen and what it would involve. Kiss was commissioned by Ulster Bank as part of The Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival and was inspired by this years theme: Feel. [ More Detail ]
Google Tech TalksMay, 5 2008ABSTRACTDmitry Jemerov, Development Lead for IntelliJ IDEA at JetBrains, will explain:- performance optimization techniques used in IntelliJ IDEA- the factors affecting IntelliJ IDEA performance in normal useSpeaker: Dmitry JemerovDmitry Jemerov is Development Lead for IntelliJ at JetBrains in St. Petersburg, Russia. He is also the author of the Python plugin and the Perforce integration plugin. [ More Detail ]
Google Tech TalksJanuary, 25 2008ABSTRACTIn this talk we examine how high performance computing has changedover the last 10-year and look toward the future in terms of trends.These changes have had and will continue to have a major impact on oursoftware. A new generation of software libraries and algorithms areneeded for the effective and reliable use of (wide area) dynamic,distributed and parallel environments. Some of the software andalgorithm challenges have already been encountered, such as managementof communication and memory hierarchies through a combination ofcompile--time and run--time techniques, but the increased scale ofcomputation, depth of memory hierarchies, range of latencies, andincreased run--time environment variability will make these problemsmuch harder.We will focus on the redesign of software to fit multicore architectures.Speaker: Jack DongarraUniversity of TennesseeOak Ridge National LaboratoryUniversity of ManchesterJack Dongarra received a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Chicago State University in 1972 and a Master of Science in Computer Science from the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1973. He received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from the University of New Mexico in 1980. He worked at the Argonne National Laboratory until 1989, becoming a senior scientist. He now holds an appointment as University Distinguished Professor of Computer Science in the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department at the University of Tennessee, has the position of a Distinguished Research Staff member in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Turing Fellow in the Computer Science and Mathematics Schools at the University of Manchester, and an Adjunct Professor in the Computer Science Department at Rice University.He specializes in numerical algorithms in linear algebra, parallel computing, the use of advanced-computer architectures, programming methodology, and tools for parallel computers. His research includes the development, testing and documentation of high quality mathematical software. He has contributed to the design and implementation of the following open source software packages and systems: EISPACK, LINPACK, the BLAS, LAPACK, ScaLAPACK, Netlib, PVM, MPI, NetSolve, Top500, ATLAS, and PAPI. He has published approximately 200 articles, papers, reports and technical memoranda and he is coauthor of several books. He was awarded the IEEE Sid Fernbach Award in 2004 for his contributions in the application of high performance computers using innovative approaches. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, ACM, and the IEEE and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. [ More Detail ]
Paul Potts performs in front of her Majesty the Queen at the Royal Variety Performance 2007.Paul won Britains Got Talent and his prize was to perform on this show [ More Detail ]
TETRIS played by real human-beings sitting in an auditorium: TETRIS is the 4th video performance of the GAME OVER Project, directed by the Swiss artist Guillaume REYMOND (NOTsoNOISY creative agency). This stop-motion video was shot and played for "LES URBAINES" festival http://www.urbaines.ch at the Palais de Rumine (Lausanne, Switzerland) on November 24th 2007. You can find more information and also SPACE INVADERS, PONG and POLE POSITION on our website http://www.notsonoisy.com/gameover [ More Detail ]
Google Tech TalksNovember, 13 2007ABSTRACTYahoo!'s Exceptional Performance Team has identified 14 best practices for making web pages faster. These best practices have proven to reduce response times of Yahoo! properties by 25-50%. They focus on the front-end, for example, why it's bad to use "@import" for including stylesheets and why ETags disable browser caching. In this talk I'll go in-depth on these best practices and the research behind them. I'll also demonstrate YSlow and do some live performance analysis of popular web sites. Relevant links:Exceptional Performance: http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/YSlow: http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/Speaker: Steve SoudersSteve Souders holds down the job of Chief Performance Yahoo! at Yahoo! He's been at Yahoo! since 2000, working on many of the platforms and products within the company He ran the development team for My Yahoo! before reaching his current position.As Chief Performance Yahoo!, he has developed a set of best practices for making web sites faster. He builds tools for performance analysis and evangelizes these best practices and tools across Yahoo!'s product teams. [ More Detail ]
Watch this "how-to" video of world champion overclocker, Sami Maekinen using the AMD OverDrive utility. He walks through the steps of overclocking the upcoming Spider Platform, based on AMD Phenom quad-core processors, next-generation ATI Radeon graphics and the AMD 7-Series chipset. [ More Detail ]
This video is on Kellie's official MySpace page!http://www.myspace.com/kelliepicklerThe CMT Awards just nominated Kellie for Performance of the Year. Congrats, Kellie!Kellie Pickler, America's small town sweetheart, sings the song she co-wrote about her mom who left when she was two.This is one of Kellie's best performances ever of "I Wonder." The Country Music Award audience gave a standing ovation after Kellie tearfully spoke the words, "I'm in Tennessee." Kellie's little brother Eric was crying as Kellie's best friend from Albemarle held him up so he could see his big sister above the crowd. Words can hardly describe the emotion that night.Ironically, Fox 8 in High Point, NC aired an interview with Kellie's "missing mom" Cynthia Malone on their 10 pm broadcast, just as Kellie was about to go on stage live in Nashville.From the Country Music Awards (CMA) show in Nashville, Tennessee on November, 7 2007.NOTE: The lady introducing Kellie is Kimberly Williams-Paisley, star of "According to Jim" and wife of country singer Brad Paisley. Kellie opened for Brad's recent tour. I loved Kellie Pickler from the first moment I saw her audition for American Idol 5 in January 2006.THANKS TO KELLIE, MoreMoosetracks3 became one of the most watched channels on YouTube!MOREMOOSETRACKS3 CHANNEL- #17- Most Viewed Channel (Today) as of Friday, November 9, 2007#70 - Most Viewed Channel (This Week) as of Sunday, November 11, 2007#57 - Most Viewed Channel (This Week) as of Tuesday, November 13, 2007#49 - Most Viewed Channel (This Week) as of Wednesday, November 14, 2007Thank you to the many sites linking to this amazing performance, including-Kellie's Official MySpace page!http://www.myspace.com/kelliepicklerhttp://www.realitytvworld.comhttp://www.popwatch.ew.com (EW.com- Entertainment Weekly)http://www.thehollywoodgossip.com http://www.xevaa.comHonors for This Video: Friday, November 9, 2007 10:56 pm ESTWay to go, Kellie!#4 - Most Viewed (Today)#2 - Most Viewed (Today) - Music#13 - Most Viewed (This Week) - Music#13 - Top Rated (Today)#2 - Top Rated (Today) - Music#99 - Top Rated (This Week)#12 - Top Rated (This Week) - Music#14 - Most Discussed (Today)#2 - Most Discussed (Today) - Music#30 - Most Discussed (This Week) - Music#2 - Top Favorites (Today)#2 - Top Favorites (Today) - Music#41 - Top Favorites (This Week)#11 - Top Favorites (This Week) - Music#29 - Most Linked (Today)#4 - Most Linked (Today) - Music#34 - Most Linked (This Week) - MusicHonors for This Video: Sunday, November 11, 2007#68 - Most Viewed (This Week)#6 - Most Viewed (This Week) - Music#71 - Top Rated (This Week)#5 - Top Rated (This Week) - Music#84 - Top Rated (This Month) - Music#75 - Most Discussed (This Week)#8 - Most Discussed (This Week) - Music#80 - Most Discussed (This Month) - Music#9 - Top Favorites (This Week)#3 - Top Favorites (This Week) - Music#65 - Top Favorites (This Month) - Music#35 - Most Linked (This Week) - MusicHonors for This Video: Tuesday, November 13, 2007 9:58 am EST#58 - Most Viewed (This Week)#5 - Most Viewed (This Week) - Music#73 - Top Rated (This Week)#5 - Top Rated (This Week) - Music#62 - Top Rated (This Month) - Music#91 - Most Discussed (This Week)#8 - Most Discussed (This Week) - Music#76 - Most Discussed (This Month) - Music#11 - Top Favorites (This Week)#4 - Top Favorites (This Week) - Music#58 - Top Favorites (This Month) - Music#19 - Most Linked (This Week) - MusicHonors for This Video: Wednesday, November 14, 2007 1:17 pm EST#44 - Most Viewed (This Week)#4 - Most Viewed (This Week) - Music#58 - Top Rated (This Week)#6 - Top Rated (This Week) - Music#58 - Top Rated (This Month) - Music#96 - Most Discussed (This Week)#10 - Most Discussed (This Week) - Music#81 - Most Discussed (This Month) - Music#10 - Top Favorites (This Week)#3 - Top Favorites (This Week) - Music#54 - Top Favorites (This Month) - Music#21 - Most Linked (This Week) - MusicHonors for This Video: Thursday, November 22, 2007 3:40 am EST#98 - Most Viewed (This Month) - Music#46 - Top Rated (This Month) - Music#66 - Most Discussed (This Month) - Music#45 - Top Favorites (This Month) - MusicHonors for This Video: Tuesday, December 3, 2007 1:24 am EST#85 - Most Viewed (This Month) - Music#49 - Top Rated (This Month) - Music#64 - Most Discussed (This Month) - Music#50 - Top Favorites (This Month) - MusicPlease watch the indie short film "JoBeth," about a girl who escapes from abuse. Click on "JoBeth" under my user name, MoreMoosetracks3. Or click here-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13ITfoRrCyQ&watch_response"JoBeth" won Best Film in the 2007 Greensboro, NC Regional contest of the 48 Hour Film Project. Matt McNeil won Best Director for "JoBeth." Credit to The Keen Collaborative headed by Dusty Keene. [ More Detail ]