Monthly Archives: October 2013

Languages can save parallel programming

Posted on October 30, 2013 by Smalltalk organizer 01

When: Wednesday, 2013-Oct-30, 11h30-12h00 Where: FCUL-DI, room C6.3.38 Presenter: Vasco Vasconcelos Abstract: Why is developing concurrent, distributed, and parallel applications so difficult? Abstractions are failing us; we need a fresh start and programming languages can help.

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Analysing and Reducing Network Inaccessibility IEEE 802.15.4 Wireless Communications

Posted on October 16, 2013 by Smalltalk organizer 01

When: Wednesday, 2013-Oct-16, 11h30-12h00 Where: FCUL-DI, room C6.3.38 Presenter: Jeferson Souza Abstract: Network inaccessibility is a temporal issue derived from the presence of faults affecting the communication services provided by the medium access control (MAC) sublayer. The occurrence of network … Continue reading →

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OWL Ontologies — Large files being constantly read

Posted on October 9, 2013 by Smalltalk organizer 01

When: Wednesday, 2013-Oct-09, 11h30-12h00 Where: FCUL-DI, room C6.3.38 Presenter: João Ferreira Abstract: Querying an ontology can be used to retrieve several bits of information. Eg, “is the heart a organ?” But biomedical ontologies are usually large, with several hundred MB … Continue reading →

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