They’ve already posted the admission rules for KhNURE. Many people may be asking themselves: “Where should I go to study?” I recommend choosing the Faculty of Computer Engineering and Control at KhNURE, and the corresponding field “computer engineering”. Besides common sense, the need for this specialty is confirmed by …

On Tuesday (06/23/09), I’ll be giving my talk on system-level design. It will present an overview of the current state of the field, some results from my dissertation, and various ideas.

On the program:

1. A retrospective of design automation tools (since the 1950s).

2. Modern approaches to design …

There is good news and bad news.

The bad news is that the party committee of my department has decided that in the 2009/2010 academic year, third-year students will be left without a course on optimization. This is not because the course is difficult or useless to anyone. This …

In the introductory classes for the optimization course, the students and I discuss a question like “When should you start optimizing?” You can often hear the answer attributed to Donald Knuth: “Premature optimization is the root of all evil.”

Usually, this phrase (actually taken out of context) is interpreted this …

The quality of education at KhNURE was assessed by a delegation from Kuwait. After which a decision was made at that country’s government level not to send students to us for studies because of its low level.

Kuwait will not send specialists for postgraduate study at Ukrainian universities and …

On Wednesday (05/27/09), Sergey Mikhtonyuk will give a lecture on computer graphics. The program includes:

1. Graphic primitives

2. Transformations: Projection / World / View

3. Matrices

4. Z-Buffer & Stencil buffer

5. Lightning: Flat (Gouraud / Phong shading), Directional (point / spot lights)

6. Textures: Texture coordinates, Mip-mapping, Sampling, Cubic textures

7. Lighting models: Diffuse / Ambient / Specular

8. Shaders: Vertex …

Today was the last lecture in “Multicore Programming,” a course I teach for the students in our club. I’d like to thank the guys who, despite the fact that the course isn’t meant for first-year students, and despite the late hour of the classes, still kept coming right …

If a student is earning money but at the same time doesn’t show up at the university, then he doesn’t need higher education. He can safely switch to correspondence study or just take his documents and leave altogether. There can be no mercy for such people during exams …

On April first I started teaching the course "Introduction to Software Performance Optimization" for third-year SCS students. For the introductory lecture I decided not to use slides and a projector, and just printed out a short lecture outline for myself. In class I asked the students whether it was more …