Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: eugene@cse.ucsc.edu (Eugene Miya)
Subject: Do you want a reason to overview parallelism literaure?
Organization: UC Santa Cruz CIS/CE
Date: 3 Apr 1997 02:36:50 GMT
Message-ID: <5hv542$elj@darkstar.ucsc.edu>

I need a guinea pig.
The field of parallel computing does.
This "forced" exercise will give the person doing it a chance to
really immerse themselves (a little) into the literaure of parallel computing.

Suggested audience: a grad student.  You can be faculty, but you won't
gain as much.  Bader: you are automatic excluded from this offer.
I need you on Dejan's merger.

Requirement: you need Danny Hillis' PhD thesis: The Connection Machine
published by MIT Press.  Danny has consented to merge his annotated
biblio with the big biblio.  We have to do this one year at a time.
I have to lock the file for a given year, and the student must search
the file, make changes, etc. quickly.

It's a good exercise.  If you don't like it, just do one year, and I'll
hand it to an alternate.  I will diff old and updated files.
You can add your own annotations when and wherever you want.

Warning: you have to put up with Danny's typos (and a few of mine if you
find any).

No, Danny did not retain the machine-readable copy of his thesis.
Yes, you can use an OCR, but it's of mixed value in this merger.
It's really kind of fun seeing how Danny works and thinks.
Of course Danny's coverage is only up to 1985.
The editing causes you to jump around, you see other people's
annotations, you get a sense of what's going on.  But you must not dally.

If you are interested in maso-....., I mean helping out,
email me.