From the Da Vinci Machine website: We are extending the JVM with first-class architectural support for languages other than Java, especially dynamic languages. This project will prototype a number of extensions to the JVM, so that it can run non-Java languages efficiently, with…
It has been a while since I work on true embedded stuff, which is an area that I enjoyed experimenting with. So it is time to do something fun related to this, while relating such efforts to an area that I’m spending an…
I recently read a great article on how Computing is perceived today, a natural science. Written by Peter J. Denning, director of the Cebrowski Institute for Innovation and Information Superiority at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA, you can find this article…
I was doing some reading about Metaprogramming and Self-modifying code at Wikipedia, a fascinating topic with many uses from optimization, patching, and genetic programming. And it reminded me of my days during the early 1990s working as a software engineer on the Space…