The 2006 José Luís Balcazar Open for novice fencers at The Point Fencing club took place on Saturday, January 28th, 2006. The final top four was occupied by: Cece Borries (1st place) Judy Vancleeff (2nd place) Daniel Downey (3rd place) Stephanie Helle (3rd place) These are some of the pictures of the fencers and people in the meeting.
In the last decade, multimedia and scientific applications have pushed CPU manufactures to include native support for vector instruction sets. This software presents how to implement efficient condition encoding and fast rule matching strategies using vector instructions. The paper elaborates on Altivec (PowerPC G4 and G5) and SSE2 (Intel P4/Xeon and AMD Opteron) instruction sets producing speedups beyond ninety times when compared to non-vectorized implementations. The code of this post was used to run the experiments described in the IlliGAL 2006001 technical report “Fast Rule Matching for Learning Classifier Systems via Vector Instructions” by Xavier Llorà and Kumara Sastry....
The next tournament is an Open tournament at CAAFC on Sunday 29th of January. Epee registration closes at 9:00am, foil at 11:30am, and sabre at 1:3opm. More information can be found at the schedule tab and competition calendar of CAAFC web site.
The submissions deadline for the ACM 2006 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference to be held July 8-12, 2006 (Saturday-Wednesday) in Seattle, WA has been extended to February 1.
Yup, flying over the Atlantic always provide some spare time to put to good use. That’s what I did reading O Zhair, the latest Paulo Coelho’s book. You can read an extract of the first chapter here.