It all started last Friday, when friends sent me links to the news. The news said that a decision had been made to close universities for three weeks for quarantine.

I immediately wanted to get some kind of official information from our administration. Interestingly, on the front pages of four …

Often, when studying a new library, you need to look at the class hierarchy or the list of methods of a particular class. Jumping from file to file via “Show Declaration” links in Visual Studio is not always convenient. There is a utility called Doxygen that parses projects written in …

And here we are again in the middle of autumn, and here we are again with the birthday of our dear university. The administration believes that this is specifically the 79th anniversary of its founding, but nevertheless there are also other opinions on that score.

In fact, it’s not …

Good thing I live in the woods.

I looked out the window and realized it was already fall.

IBM has announced the start of the competition under the “IBM Ph. D. Fellowship Awards Program. IBM Grants for PhD Students” for the 2010–2011 academic year. The “IBM Ph. D. Fellowship Award” program is an annual international competition that encourages talented PhD students conducting research in areas that are …

Sean McCloud, a director at Mentor Graphics, reports that by the end of 2009 the number of companies using C++ synthesis for production will exceed 33%. In 2008, that figure was about 14%. The statistics were collected through an anonymous survey of 800 engineers. The survey was sponsored by Mentor …

Colleagues from Moscow are sending good news.

“Kaspersky Lab” reminds you that applications are still being accepted for participation in the innovation project support program. Students, graduate students, young scientists, instructors at higher education institutions, professors, and research staff can bring their ideas to life this year. The grant amount …

Today I learned about the existence of a new useful blog, “Tips for Increasing Personal Productivity with Software and Online Services,” or, for short, ProductivityBlog.com.ua. I don’t know whether there’s any point in describing this blog after such an informative title?

For example, among the posts …

Today there was a webinar (web + seminar) by Mentor Graphics on “Hardware Designs Reuse Using C++ and High Level Synthesis.” The lecture in bullet points:

• ANSI C++ synthesis into RTL is supported;

• a 10–20x increase in engineers’ productivity, as well as reduced verification time;

• synthesis quality equivalent to manual …

Last week I was preparing a lecture about the SystemC language and came across an article by Stephen A. Edwards, “The Challenges of Synthesizing Hardware from C-Like Languages,” about various C-like languages used for describing hardware. Among the various languages and tools there was a link to U.S. patent …