Boyd Multerer talking at GCU: Feeling the Heat: Gaming and the End of Moore’s Law
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On Wednesday 5th of July at 3pm, we have a speaker coming to Glasgow Caledonian University that may interest you.
Boyd Multerer was a key contributor to the Xbox platform team for over 15 years. During that time he founded Xbox Live, then ran engineering for it for 4 years. Then he founded and ran all of XNA and the Xbox developer program for 5 years. Finally, he ran software engineering for the Xbox One Console. (Kernel, drivers, OS and such. Everything that wasn’t a game.).
For the past two years, Boyd has been independently exploring parallel compute models, UI systems and more that he isn’t ready to talk about.
The way we write games (and all software) is in the midst of fundamental change driven by two external forces. The focus on chip design is now driven by primarily mobile devices (phones), who’s primary emphasis is on battery life and to a lesser extent servers in the cloud. Simultaneously, we have arrived at the end of Moore’s law.
Between the two, advances in gaming hardware will be following different paths than they have in the past, and we will need to shift our coding practices accordingly.
This talk explores the trends affecting us that have been building, makes predictions on what we will see and what will be important, and finally discusses ways we can make the best of the new world.
All software, and especially games, needs to be power aware and multi-core proficient. Excellence in these areas will a requirement going forward.
Register at the Eventbrite or contact david.farrell@gcu.ac.uk for info.
BCS Glasgow AGM 2014 & Pinkification or Feminising?
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Date Monday 13th October 2014
Time 6:00 for 6:30 pm
Location Lecture Theatre W118, 1st floor Hamish Wood Building, Glasgow Caledonian University, Cowcaddens Road, Glasgow G4 0BE - Map of Location
Speaker Sharon Moore (BCSWomen Scotland)
Convenor Tejinder Singh Lota
Sharon Moore will be delivering a presentation on Pinkification or Feminising? This will then be followed by the AGM.
Pink is not a feature, yet Pritt stick thinks there's a need for pink glue. Do you?
Will pinkification entice more girls into STEM?
In this session Sharon Moore will introduce the concept of pinkification and share some opinions, and will then invite the audience to debate their way to a conclusion.
In advance of the evening you may wish to read a few articles related to the subject:
* http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2716279/I-want-make-Lego-girl-people-let-adventures-Company-releases-toy-set-showing-female-scientists-sold-out.html
* http://reelgirl.com/2014/08/fuck-you-lego/ (This is not the opinion of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT)
* http://www.pinkstinks.co.uk/
* https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html
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