We're happy to announce that X10 and X10DT version 2.1.2 are now available for download. This release contains a number of bug fixes and improvements to the code base. For more details, please see the X10 2.1.2 release page at http://x10-lang.org/X10+2.1.2+Release.
You may have seen IBM’s Watson challenge two all-time human Jeopardy champions. Now it is your turn to pit your wits, not against Watson, but against other student experts from around the world regarding the X10 programming language! The winner will receive their choice of an X10 t-shirt or a free workshop registration for the PLDI workshop on X10. (Second place will receive the other prize).
Here is how it works. Below are a set of twelve "answers" Jeopardy-style. The first email received with twelve correct responses will be announced as the winner. The second email received with twelve correct responses will be announced as runner-up.
This contest is not open to IBM employees or contractors. It is open to both graduate and undergraduate students worldwide with an interest in X10. Email your answers to jcthomas@us.ibm.com.
Please remember that in Jeopardy, the "answers" are given to you and you must respond in the form of a "question" that fits with the category. For example, an answer might be "This is the third planet from the sun" and the correct response would be in the form of a question: "What is earth?" Good luck!
Category: X10 innovation award winners around the world.
1. Answer: This innovation award winner has a gemstone translation project.
2. Answer: The university of this Innovation Award winner has a banana slug as a mascot.
3. Answer: This European Innovation Award winner is moving undergraduate courses to X10.
4. Answer: This Innovation Award winner is working on MapReduce.
5. Answer: The work of this Innovation Award winner allows programmers to use Java frameworks.
6. Answer: These two Innovation Award winners are at a university which awarded a Ph.D. degree in mathematics (non-honarary) to an American football quarterback who played for the Cleveland Browns in the 1960’s.
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Category: Play with Numbers, Words and Symbols.
7.Answer: The cost in US dollars of an X10 license times e times pi times Avagadro’s Number.
8. Answer: This computer language could be expressed, in some way, as MULTIPLY concatenated with ADD.
9. Answer: This X10 construct can be found in a place to transform eggs to chicks, a portable firestarter, and the main source of calories in beef.
10. Answer: This X10 construct is intended to introduce a discipline to prevent deadlocks and race conditions.
11. Answer: In this hexadecimal year, an IBM computer beat world chess champion Kasparov.
12. Answer: This Innovation Award winner may make you think of an open German penny.
You may have seen IBM’s Watson challenge two all-time human Jeopardy champions. Now it is your turn to pit your wits, not against Watson, but against other student experts from around the world regarding the X10 programming language! The winner will receive their choice of an X10 t-shirt or a free workshop registration for the PLDI workshop on X10. (Second place will receive the other prize).
Here is how it works. On February 21st, we will post to both the X10 language website and the X10 users group mailing list (around 8 am EST, 1 pm GMT) a set of twelve "questions" Jeopardy-style. The first email received with twelve correct responses will be announced as the winner. The second email received with twelve correct responses will be announced as runner-up.
This contest is not open to IBM employees or contractors. It is open to both graduate and undergraduate students worldwide with an interest in X10. Further instructions will be forthcoming on February 21. When the time comes, email your answers to jcthomas@us.ibm.com.
X10 workshop at PLDI -- deadline extended to February 18, 2011
The ACM SIGPLAN 2011 X10 Workshop (X10'11) will be co-located with PLDI'11 and held June 4th, 2011 in San Jose, California.
See http://www.x10-lang.org/workshop/ for more details.
The International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE) is the premier software engineering conference, providing a forum for researchers, practitioners and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, experiences and concerns in the field of software engineering.
http://2011.icse-conferences.org/
This conference will be held May 21-28, 2011 in Honolulu.