Saturday, August 25, 2007

VOA News Podcast

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British Council Podcast

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Thursday, August 23, 2007

GRE #5

FUNNY
chortle
droll
facetious
flippant
gibe
jocular
levity
ludicrous
raillery
riposte
simper

Wednesday, August 8, 2007

GRE #4

PREVENT/OBSTRUCT
discomfort
encumber
fetter
forfend
hinder
impede
inhibit
occlude

GRE #3

PRAISE
acclaim
accolade
aggrandize
encomium
eulogize
extol
fawn
laud/laudatory
venerate/veneration

GRE #2

WITHDRAWAL/RETREAT
abeyance
abjure
abnegation
abortive
abrogate
decamp
demur
recant
recidivism
remission
renege
rescind
retrograde

GRE #1

WISDOM
adage
aphorism
apothegm
axiom
bromide
dictum
epigram
platitude
sententious
truism

Sunday, August 5, 2007

UCSD - CSE - SDSC

The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) and also partners in NPACI, the NSF-funded National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure. Francine Berman is a director of SDSC.

UCSD - CSE - Field - HPC

High Performance Computation Lab is challenging computing problems:


  • Scientific Computation


  • Performance Programming

    • Design, writing, and tuning of programs to sustain near-peak performance

    • Parallelization, localization, load balancing, and overlapping communication with computation

    • Performance Programming

    • Larry Carter



  • Compiler Technology

    • Interface between programming languages and architectures

    • Exploiting multiple levels of parallelism and optimizing data movement to achieve high performance

    • Performance Compilers

    • Hierarchical tiling extends traditional tiling to include optimization for storage and data movement

    • Jeanne Ferrante



  • Ubiquitous Computing


  • Concurrent Systems Architecture


Saturday, August 4, 2007

UCSD - CSE - Field

The CSE Department has significant strengths in most major fields of:

UCSD - CSE

Computer Science and Engineering (CSE)

People:



Research:


Faculty:


Admission:


Financial and Housing Support:

UCSD - OGS

Before applying for Graduate Admission at UCSD.


  • Contact the department and/or program in which you are interested.

  • Review the department website. (here is the website of Computer Science department, and brochure in [pdf])

  • Make contacts to ensure your interests match what the department has to offer.

  • Read the department requirements. (here is the basic information)

  • Applicants admitted must respond by April 15.

  • Registration Fees

UCSD

"University of California, San Diego" or "UCSD" for short, is the university that I intend to go to study for a PhD in Computer Science.

Here is the link to send an on-line application. The deadline to send the application is December 15, 2007 for fall semester 2008.

The application process by Office of Graduate Studies require:


Other: