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Donald Knuth Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus Curriculum Vitae Available Online
Donald Knuth Fletcher Jones Professor of Computer Science, Emeritus Curriculum Vitae available Online Bio BIO Donald Ervin Knuth is an American computer scientist, mathematician, and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University. He is the author of the multi-volume work The Art of Computer Programming and has been called the "father" of the analysis of algorithms. He contributed to the development of the rigorous analysis of the computational complexity of algorithms and systematized formal mathematical techniques for it. In the process he also popularized the asymptotic notation. In addition to fundamental contributions in several branches of theoretical computer science, Knuth is the creator of the TeX computer typesetting system, the related METAFONT font definition language and rendering system, and the Computer Modern family of typefaces. As a writer and scholar,[4] Knuth created the WEB and CWEB computer programming systems designed to encourage and facilitate literate programming, and designed the MIX/MMIX instruction set architectures. As a member of the academic and scientific community, Knuth is strongly opposed to the policy of granting software patents. He has expressed his disagreement directly to the patent offices of the United States and Europe. (via Wikipedia) ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS • Professor Emeritus, Computer Science HONORS AND AWARDS • Grace Murray Hopper Award, ACM (1971) • Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1973) • Turing Award, ACM (1974) • Lester R Ford Award, Mathematical Association of America (1975) • Member, National Academy of Sciences (1975) 5 OF 44 PROFESSIONAL EDUCATION • PhD, California Institute of Technology , Mathematics (1963) PATENTS • Donald Knuth, Stephen N Schiller. "United States Patent 5,305,118 Methods of controlling dot size in digital half toning with multi-cell threshold arrays", Adobe Systems, Apr 19, 1994 • Donald Knuth, LeRoy R Guck, Lawrence G Hanson. -
Technical Reference Manual for the Standardization of Geographical Names United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names
ST/ESA/STAT/SER.M/87 Department of Economic and Social Affairs Statistics Division Technical reference manual for the standardization of geographical names United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names United Nations New York, 2007 The Department of Economic and Social Affairs of the United Nations Secretariat is a vital interface between global policies in the economic, social and environmental spheres and national action. The Department works in three main interlinked areas: (i) it compiles, generates and analyses a wide range of economic, social and environmental data and information on which Member States of the United Nations draw to review common problems and to take stock of policy options; (ii) it facilitates the negotiations of Member States in many intergovernmental bodies on joint courses of action to address ongoing or emerging global challenges; and (iii) it advises interested Governments on the ways and means of translating policy frameworks developed in United Nations conferences and summits into programmes at the country level and, through technical assistance, helps build national capacities. NOTE The designations employed and the presentation of material in the present publication do not imply the expression of any opinion whatsoever on the part of the Secretariat of the United Nations concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. The term “country” as used in the text of this publication also refers, as appropriate, to territories or areas. Symbols of United Nations documents are composed of capital letters combined with figures. ST/ESA/STAT/SER.M/87 UNITED NATIONS PUBLICATION Sales No. -
SNC: a Cloud Service Platform for Symbolic-Numeric Computation Using Just-In-Time Compilation
This article has been accepted for publication in a future issue of this journal, but has not been fully edited. Content may change prior to final publication. Citation information: DOI 10.1109/TCC.2017.2656088, IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON CLOUD COMPUTING 1 SNC: A Cloud Service Platform for Symbolic-Numeric Computation using Just-In-Time Compilation Peng Zhang1, Member, IEEE, Yueming Liu1, and Meikang Qiu, Senior Member, IEEE and SQL. Other types of Cloud services include: Software as a Abstract— Cloud services have been widely employed in IT Service (SaaS) in which the software is licensed and hosted in industry and scientific research. By using Cloud services users can Clouds; and Database as a Service (DBaaS) in which managed move computing tasks and data away from local computers to database services are hosted in Clouds. While enjoying these remote datacenters. By accessing Internet-based services over lightweight and mobile devices, users deploy diversified Cloud great services, we must face the challenges raised up by these applications on powerful machines. The key drivers towards this unexploited opportunities within a Cloud environment. paradigm for the scientific computing field include the substantial Complex scientific computing applications are being widely computing capacity, on-demand provisioning and cross-platform interoperability. To fully harness the Cloud services for scientific studied within the emerging Cloud-based services environment computing, however, we need to design an application-specific [4-12]. Traditionally, the focus is given to the parallel scientific platform to help the users efficiently migrate their applications. In HPC (high performance computing) applications [6, 12, 13], this, we propose a Cloud service platform for symbolic-numeric where substantial effort has been given to the integration of computation– SNC. -
The File Cmfonts.Fdd for Use with Latex2ε
The file cmfonts.fdd for use with LATEX 2".∗ Frank Mittelbach Rainer Sch¨opf 2019/12/16 This file is maintained byA theLTEX Project team. Bug reports can be opened (category latex) at https://latex-project.org/bugs.html. 1 Introduction This file contains the external font information needed to load the Computer Modern fonts designed by Don Knuth and distributed with TEX. From this file all .fd files (font definition files) for the Computer Modern fonts, both with old encoding (OT1) and Cork encoding (T1) are generated. The Cork encoded fonts are known under the name ec fonts. 2 Customization If you plan to install the AMS font package or if you have it already installed, please note that within this package there are additional sizes of the Computer Modern symbol and math italic fonts. With the release of LATEX 2", these AMS `extracm' fonts have been included in the LATEX font set. Therefore, the math .fd files produced here assume the presence of these AMS extensions. For text fonts in T1 encoding, the directive new selects the new (version 1.2) DC fonts. For the text fonts in OT1 and U encoding, the optional docstrip directive ori selects a conservatively generated set of font definition files, which means that only the basic font sizes coming with an old LATEX 2.09 installation are included into the \DeclareFontShape commands. However, on many installations, people have added missing sizes by scaling up or down available Metafont sources. For example, the Computer Modern Roman italic font cmti is only available in the sizes 7, 8, 9, and 10pt. -
Surviving the TEX Font Encoding Mess Understanding The
Surviving the TEX font encoding mess Understanding the world of TEX fonts and mastering the basics of fontinst Ulrik Vieth Taco Hoekwater · EuroT X ’99 Heidelberg E · FAMOUS QUOTE: English is useful because it is a mess. Since English is a mess, it maps well onto the problem space, which is also a mess, which we call reality. Similary, Perl was designed to be a mess, though in the nicests of all possible ways. | LARRY WALL COROLLARY: TEX fonts are mess, as they are a product of reality. Similary, fontinst is a mess, not necessarily by design, but because it has to cope with the mess we call reality. Contents I Overview of TEX font technology II Installation TEX fonts with fontinst III Overview of math fonts EuroT X ’99 Heidelberg 24. September 1999 3 E · · I Overview of TEX font technology What is a font? What is a virtual font? • Font file formats and conversion utilities • Font attributes and classifications • Font selection schemes • Font naming schemes • Font encodings • What’s in a standard font? What’s in an expert font? • Font installation considerations • Why the need for reencoding? • Which raw font encoding to use? • What’s needed to set up fonts for use with T X? • E EuroT X ’99 Heidelberg 24. September 1999 4 E · · What is a font? in technical terms: • – fonts have many different representations depending on the point of view – TEX typesetter: fonts metrics (TFM) and nothing else – DVI driver: virtual fonts (VF), bitmaps fonts(PK), outline fonts (PFA/PFB or TTF) – PostScript: Type 1 (outlines), Type 3 (anything), Type 42 fonts (embedded TTF) in general terms: • – fonts are collections of glyphs (characters, symbols) of a particular design – fonts are organized into families, series and individual shapes – glyphs may be accessed either by character code or by symbolic names – encoding of glyphs may be fixed or controllable by encoding vectors font information consists of: • – metric information (glyph metrics and global parameters) – some representation of glyph shapes (bitmaps or outlines) EuroT X ’99 Heidelberg 24. -
Gnuplot Programming Interview Questions and Answers Guide
Gnuplot Programming Interview Questions And Answers Guide. Global Guideline. https://www.globalguideline.com/ Gnuplot Programming Interview Questions And Answers Global Guideline . COM Gnuplot Programming Job Interview Preparation Guide. Question # 1 What is Gnuplot? Answer:- Gnuplot is a command-driven interactive function plotting program. It can be used to plot functions and data points in both two- and three-dimensional plots in many different formats. It is designed primarily for the visual display of scientific data. gnuplot is copyrighted, but freely distributable; you don't have to pay for it. Read More Answers. Question # 2 How to run gnuplot on your computer? Answer:- Gnuplot is in widespread use on many platforms, including MS Windows, linux, unix, and OSX. The current source code retains supports for older systems as well, including VMS, Ultrix, OS/2, MS-DOS, Amiga, OS-9/68k, Atari ST, BeOS, and Macintosh. Versions since 4.0 have not been extensively tested on legacy platforms. Please notify the FAQ-maintainer of any further ports you might be aware of. You should be able to compile the gnuplot source more or less out of the box on any reasonable standard (ANSI/ISO C, POSIX) environment. Read More Answers. Question # 3 How to edit or post-process a gnuplot graph? Answer:- This depends on the terminal type you use. * X11 toolkits: You can use the terminal type fig and use the xfig drawing program to edit the plot afterwards. You can obtain the xfig program from its web site http://www.xfig.org. More information about the text-format used for fig can be found in the fig-package. -
About Basictex-2021
About BasicTeX-2021 Richard Koch January 2, 2021 1 Introduction Most TeX distributions for Mac OS X are based on TeX Live, the reference edition of TeX produced by TeX User Groups across the world. Among these is MacTeX, which installs the full TeX Live as well as front ends, Ghostscript, and other utilities | everything needed to use TeX on the Mac. To obtain it, go to http://tug.org/mactex. 2 Basic TeX BasicTeX (92 MB) is an installation package for Mac OS X based on TeX Live 2021. Unlike MacTeX, this package is deliberately small. Yet it contains all of the standard tools needed to write TeX documents, including TeX, LaTeX, pdfTeX, MetaFont, dvips, MetaPost, and XeTeX. It would be dangerous to construct a new distribution by going directly to CTAN or the Web and collecting useful style files, fonts and so forth. Such a distribution would run into support issues as the creators move on to other projects. Luckily, the TeX Live install script has its own notion of \installation packages" and collections of such packages to make \installation schemes." BasicTeX is constructed by running the TeX Live install script and choosing the \small" scheme. Thus it is a subset of the full TeX Live with exactly the TeX Live directory structure and configuration scripts. Moreover, BasicTeX contains tlmgr, the TeX Live Manager software introduced in TeX Live 2008, which can install additional packages over the network. So it will be easy for users to add missing packages if needed. Since it is important that the install package come directly from the standard TeX Live distribution, I'm going to explain exactly how I installed TeX to produce the install package. -
AMS-LATEX Version 1.0 User's Guide
e w -LATEX Version 1.0 User’s Guide American Mathematical Society August 1990 0 Contents I General 1 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Notes XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 1 e e 2 The w -LTEX project 2 e e 3 Major components of the w -LTEX package 3 II Font considerations 4 4 The font selection scheme of Mittelbach and Schopf¨ 4 5 Basic concepts 4 5.1 Shape XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 5 5.2 Series XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 6 5.3 Size XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 6 5.4 Family XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 7 5.5 Using other font families XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 8 5.6 The oldlfont option XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 10 5.7 Warnings XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 10 6 Names of math font commands 11 7 The command \newsymbol 16 8 The amssymb option 16 III Features of the amstex option 17 9 Math spacing commands 17 10 Multiple integral signs 17 i 11 Over and under arrows 17 12 Dots 18 13 Accents in math 19 14 Roots 19 15 Boxed formulas 20 16 Extensible arrows 20 17 \overset, \underset and \sideset 20 18 The \text command 21 19 Operator names 21 20 \mod and its relatives 22 21 Fractions and related constructions 22 22 Continued fractions 23 23 Smash options 24 e 24 New LTEX environments 24 24.1 The “cases” environment XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 24 24.2 Matrix XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 25 24.3 The Sb and Sp environments XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 26 24.4 Commutative diagrams XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 26 25 Alignment structures for equations 27 25.1 The align environment XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 28 25.2 The gather environment XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX 28 25.3 The -
P Font-Change Q UV 3
p font•change q UV Version 2015.2 Macros to Change Text & Math fonts in TEX 45 Beautiful Variants 3 Amit Raj Dhawan [email protected] September 2, 2015 This work had been released under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License on July 19, 2010. You are free to Share (to copy, distribute and transmit the work) and to Remix (to adapt the work) provided you follow the Attribution and Share Alike guidelines of the licence. For the full licence text, please visit: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/legalcode. 4 When I reach the destination, more than I realize that I have realized the goal, I am occupied with the reminiscences of the journey. It strikes to me again and again, ‘‘Isn’t the journey to the goal the real attainment of the goal?’’ In this way even if I miss goal, I still have attained goal. Contents Introduction .................................................................................. 1 Usage .................................................................................. 1 Example ............................................................................... 3 AMS Symbols .......................................................................... 3 Available Weights ...................................................................... 5 Warning ............................................................................... 5 Charter ....................................................................................... 6 Utopia ....................................................................................... -
Zapfcoll Minikatalog.Indd
Largest compilation of typefaces from the designers Gudrun and Hermann Zapf. Most of the fonts include the Euro symbol. Licensed for 5 CPUs. 143 high quality typefaces in PS and/or TT format for Mac and PC. Colombine™ a Alcuin™ a Optima™ a Marconi™ a Zapf Chancery® a Aldus™ a Carmina™ a Palatino™ a Edison™ a Zapf International® a AMS Euler™ a Marcon™ a Medici Script™ a Shakespeare™ a Zapf International® a Melior™ a Aldus™ a Melior™ a a Melior™ Noris™ a Optima™ a Vario™ a Aldus™ a Aurelia™ a Zapf International® a Carmina™ a Shakespeare™ a Palatino™ a Aurelia™ a Melior™ a Zapf book® a Kompakt™ a Alcuin™ a Carmina™ a Sistina™ a Vario™ a Zapf Renaissance Antiqua® a Optima™ a AMS Euler™ a Colombine™ a Alcuin™ a Optima™ a Marconi™ a Shakespeare™ a Zapf Chancery® Aldus™ a Carmina™ a Palatino™ a Edison™ a Zapf international® a AMS Euler™ a Marconi™ a Medici Script™ a Shakespeare™ a Zapf international® a Aldus™ a Melior™ a Zapf Chancery® a Kompakt™ a Noris™ a Zapf International® a Car na™ a Zapf book® a Palatino™ a Optima™ Alcuin™ a Carmina™ a Sistina™ a Melior™ a Zapf Renaissance Antiqua® a Medici Script™ a Aldus™ a AMS Euler™ a Colombine™ a Vario™ a Alcuin™ a Marconi™ a Marconi™ a Carmina™ a Melior™ a Edison™ a Shakespeare™ a Zapf book® aZapf international® a Optima™ a Zapf International® a Carmina™ a Zapf Chancery® Noris™ a Optima™ a Zapf international® a Carmina™ a Sistina™ a Shakespeare™ a Palatino™ a a Kompakt™ a Aurelia™ a Melior™ a Zapf Renaissance Antiqua® Antiqua® a Optima™ a AMS Euler™ a Introduction Gudrun & Hermann Zapf Collection The Gudrun and Hermann Zapf Collection is a special edition for Macintosh and PC and the largest compilation of typefaces from the designers Gudrun and Hermann Zapf. -
A Reader Framework for Guile for Guile-Reader 0.6.2
A Reader Framework for Guile for Guile-Reader 0.6.2 Ludovic Court`es Edition 0.6.2 8 March 2017 This file documents Guile-Reader. Copyright c 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2012, 2015, 2017 Ludovic Court`es Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies. Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this manual under the con- ditions for verbatim copying, provided that the entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a permission notice identical to this one. Permission is granted to copy and distribute translations of this manual into another lan- guage, under the above conditions for modified versions, except that this permission notice may be stated in a translation approved by the Free Software Foundation. i Table of Contents A Reader Framework for Guile ................ 1 1 Introduction............................... 3 2 Overview .................................. 5 3 Quick Start................................ 7 4 API Reference............................. 9 4.1 Token Readers .............................................. 9 4.1.1 Defining a New Token Reader............................ 9 4.1.2 Token Reader Calling Convention ........................ 9 4.1.3 Invoking a Reader from a Token Reader ................. 10 4.1.4 Token Reader Library .................................. 11 4.1.5 Limitations............................................ 16 4.1.5.1 Token Delimiters ................................. -
PDF File, Or As a Single HTML Page
MyJIT: Documentation version 0.9.0.x Petr Krajča, 2015 Dept. Computer Science Palacký University Olomouc Contents 1 About MyJIT 1 2 Instruction Set 2 2.1 Registers ............................................ 2 2.2 Notation ............................................ 3 2.3 Instructions .......................................... 3 2.3.1 Transfer Operations ................................. 3 2.3.2 Binary Arithmetic Operations ............................ 3 2.3.3 Unary Arithmetic Operations ............................ 5 2.3.4 Load Operations .................................... 5 2.3.5 Store Operations ................................... 6 2.3.6 Compare Instructions ................................ 6 2.3.7 Conversions ...................................... 7 2.3.8 Function declaration ................................. 7 2.3.9 Function calls ..................................... 8 2.3.10 Jumps .......................................... 9 2.3.11 Branch Operations .................................. 9 2.3.12 Misc ........................................... 11 3 Getting Started 13 4 Debugging 15 4.1 Debugging messages ..................................... 15 4.2 Warnings ............................................ 15 4.3 Code listing ........................................... 16 4.3.1 Example of the IL listing (JIT_DEBUG_OPS) ..................... 16 4.3.2 Example of the machine code listing (JIT_DEBUG_CODE) ............. 17 4.3.3 Example of the combined listing (JIT_DEBUG_COMBINED) ............. 17 5 Optimizations 18 6 Download 19 6.1 Getting