Guppie: A Coordination Framework for Parallel Processing Using Shared Memory Featuring A Master-Worker Relationship

Most programs can be parallelized to some extent. The processing power available in computers today makes parallel computing more desirable and attainable than ever before. Many machines today have multiple processors or multiple processing cores making parallel computing more available locally, as well as over a network. In order for parallel applications to be written, they require a computing language, such as C++, and a coordination language (or library), such as Linda. This research involves the creation and implementation of a coordination framework, Guppie, which is easy to use, similar to Linda, but provides more efficiency when dealing with large amounts of messages and data. Greater efficiency can be achieved in coarse-grained parallel computing through the use of shared memory managed through a master-worker relationship

Dangerous Liaisons: Relationships between design, craft and art

The introductory essay [co-authored] examines the background and current interconnections between design, craft and the fine arts. This Special Issue was able to expand the debate by showing how attitudes to materials – from 19C sculpture to current fashion – appropriate craftsmanship to reinvigorate notions of handmaking

Some abstractions on Kandinsky [Review of an exhibit of Wassily Kandinsky\u27s work at the Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee]

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Dinner

Dinner is an interactive exhibition which presents appropriated works of art collected and hung in a clustered salon style, as well as a fully realized recreation based on a 16th century Dutch banquet still-life, which presents guests with meats, cheeses, fruits, vegetables, breads, and wine to share and imbibe. Dining ware is provided for guests at the entrance to the exhibit, as are suggested topics of conversation, which are presented on slips of paper for guests to carry with them throughout their time in the space. Within the collection of wall-mounted works are references to ancient Greek and Roman marble statues, portraits of European elites spanning the 17th and 18th century, and more modern children’s cartoons from the 1980s and 90s. The disparate references align into a singular motif by using repetition of color, pose, framing and material within the artworks. This installation explores themes of beauty, class, privilege, history, excess, and humor while providing a space for cultivating deeper conversations on said subjects through the act of sharing, looking, and eating

Sobre diseño y género. Mujeres pioneras

This article reflects on the presence of women in industrial design. As it happens in so many other creative facets, the difficulties when acceding to an active place in labour life and the lack of recognition of their work have complicated their action and their visibilization. Nevertheless, a series of pioneering women laid the foundations so that this activity could also be developed without prejudices of genre. The obstacles have not been cleared yet, and the presence of women, especially in certain sectors of industrial design is in a real minority. All in all, their number increases and thus the hope of real equality in this activity.En este artículo se reflexiona sobre la presencia de las mujeres en el diseño industrial. Como en tantas otras facetas de la creación, las dificultades a la hora de acceder a un puesto activo en la vida laboral, y la falta de reconocimiento de su trabajo, han complicado su acción y su visibilización. No obstante, una serie de mujeres pioneras pusieron en su día los cimientos para que esta actividad fuera también una actividad sin prejuicios de género. Hoy aún no se han salvado los escollos, y la presencia de las mujeres, sobre todo en determinados sectores del diseño industrial, es muy minoritaria. Con todo, su número aumenta y con ello la esperanza de una igualdad real en esta actividad

Concluding dialogue

This is a chapter in a book with the overall description: This is a critical time in design. Concepts and practices of design are changing in response to historical developments in the modes of industrial design production and consumption. Indeed, the imperative of more sustainable development requires profound reconsideration of design today. Theoretical foundations and professional definitions are at stake, with consequences for institutions such as museums and universities as well as for future practitioners. This is ‘critical’ on many levels, from the urgent need to address societal and environmental issues to the reflexivity required to think and do design differently

Introductions

This is the introduction to the book with the overall description: This is a critical time in design. Concepts and practices of design are changing in response to historical developments in the modes of industrial design production and consumption. Indeed, the imperative of more sustainable development requires profound reconsideration of design today. Theoretical foundations and professional definitions are at stake, with consequences for institutions such as museums and universities as well as for future practitioners. This is ‘critical’ on many levels, from the urgent need to address societal and environmental issues to the reflexivity required to think and do design differently

Traum im Film und in der Literatur : eine Bibliographie

Inhalt: Filmbezogene Arbeiten Literaturbezogene Arbeiten In den zweiten Teil des vorliegenden Verzeichnisses ist eine thematische Liste von Manfred Engel eingegangen (http://www.fernuni-hagen.de/EUROL/kongresse/dream/dreamwelcome.htm). Ich danke Manfred Engel nicht nur für die Genehmigung, seine Liste verwenden zu dürfen, sondern auch für eine Fülle weiterer Hinweise. Dank an Bernard Dieterle und Ludger Kaczmarek