Fundamentals of computer systems programming, machine organization, and performance tuning. This course provides a solid background in systems programming and a deep understanding of low-level machine ...

This installment starts a new segment of lessons about state machines. The subject conceptually continues the event-driven theme and is one of my favorites [1,2]. Today, you’ll learn what event-driven ...

Don't underestimate the importance of program architecture. Setting up the best architecture for the application requires a lot of advance planning. Instead of implementing the application right away, ...

The modern GPU is more than a graphics device. Technologies such as the open-standard OpenCL and Nvidia’s CUDA turn the many small processors in a GPU into a parallel computing fabric, allowing ...