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Jason Bond Family History
No full textJason Bond authored this family history as part of the course requirements for HIST 550/700 Your Family in History offered online in Fall 2017 and was submitted to the Pittsburg State University Digital Commons. Please contact the author directly with any questions or comments: [email protected]
Jason vs GIJOE
No full textThesis (Master's)--University of Washington, 2019Jason vs GI JOE is partly an exercise in autobiography, an experiment in relational aesthetics, and an interdisciplinary artist project at the intersection of comic books, creative writing and performance art. This comic book, Jason vs. GIJOE, is a postmodern double erasure, based on the comic book GIJOE: Cobra II (Issue 1). The original pictures from the comic book have been removed, and replaced by a series of short narratives, describing autobiographical events from the life of the author: me, Jason. Speech bubbles from the original have been left to comment back over top of the stories, obscuring meaning but creating moments of unplanned dialogue. The comic is a readymade, twice erased: once to replace the drawings of the initial comic, and again when using the original dialogue bubbles to speak back to the narrative
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Enabling Heterogeneous Computing for Software Developers
No full textThe slowing of CMOS technology scaling mismatches the ever-increasing demand for computational power, leading to a rise in the use of heterogeneous systems, which pair scalar processors such as CPUs with specialized accelerators like FPGAs and GPUs. These systems enable continued performance and efficiency scaling for specialized tasks while retaining limited generality. This restricted generality inherent in heterogeneous platforms requires specialized knowledge of hardware architectures and low-level programming models, posing a substantial barrier to software developers.This dissertation addresses the challenges software developers face in leveraging heterogeneous computing resources, particularly FPGA acceleration. We identify three major limitations: limited programmability support in domain-specific resources, difficulty in achieving high performance and efficiency, and time-consuming porting across diverse computational architectures. We present novel approaches and tools to bridge the gap between high-level software development and efficient hardware implementation, making heterogeneous computing more accessible to a broader range of developers.In this dissertation, we introduce Heterosys, an end-to-end optimization framework simplifying heterogeneous hardware development. It decouples algorithmic descriptions from underlying fabrics and offers layout-driven and architecture-driven design generation, bridging the gap between high-level designs and hardware details.The frontend of Heterosys is HeteroRefactor, which combines dynamic invariant analysis, automated refactoring, and selective offloading. HeteroRefactor optimizes software kernels onto accelerators for common-case inputs while maintaining correctness through CPU fallback mechanisms. HeteroRefactor automatically refactors software code to make it FPGA-compatible and hardware-friendly, reducing chip resource usage through bitwidth optimization and floating-point precision tuning.From the individual synthesizable hardware kernels, Adroit optimizes them using a static approach to identify data and control broadcasts. It analyzes data and control dependencies in the source code and reports, trading off clock-cycle latency for higher frequency. By optimizing the FPGA architecture generated by high-level synthesis tools, Adroit relieves software developers from needing to understand the underlying fabric.As the backend, Heterosys composes multiple kernels into an optimized FPGA system using RapidIR, a comprehensive infrastructure for high-level physical synthesis optimizations. RapidIR integrates coarse-grained floorplanning with high-level pipelining, supporting hierarchical composition of heterogeneous designs from diverse sources. It automates the exploration of various physical optimization strategies, freeing programmers from designing device-specific hardware layouts for each target device.Our research demonstrates substantial performance improvements across diverse applications and benchmarks, including genomic sequencing and large language model accelerations. Our FPGA optimization techniques achieve operating frequency improvements of 30% to over 100% compared to state-of-the-art EDA tools, resource requirement reductions of 21% to over 90%, and 51% code reduction in porting between platforms.This dissertation contributes a comprehensive set of methodologies and tools that significantly lower the barriers to entry for heterogeneous computing, particularly FPGA acceleration. By abstracting away much of the hardware complexity, our work paves the way for broader adoption of heterogeneous acceleration in software development practices, potentially driving research innovation and performance improvements across a wide range of applications and industries
Oral history interview with Jason Poudrier
No full textJason Poudrier, author, discusses growing up in a military family and living in Alaska, North Dakota, Oregon, and finally Oklahoma. He describes what it was like enlisting in the Army after high school in 2001 and how his military service affected him. A recipient of the Purple Heart, he shares his experiences getting injured by shrapnel in Iraq. He later talks about how he uses poetry and writing to cope with his memories of war, and how he hopes to help others do the same.The Deep Roots: Oklahoma Authors Collection is a series of interviews with authors who discuss their lives, work, and creative processes
Lynn Brunelle and Jason Chin: Cook Prize 2025, Gold Medal Acceptance Speech
No full textAuthor Lynn Brunelle and illustrator Jason Chin give an acceptance speech for Life After Whale: The Amazing Ecosystem of a Whale Fall (Neal Porter Books/Holiday House)https://educate.bankstreet.edu/cook/1016/thumbnail.jp
The people behind the papers – Jason Ko and Daniel Lobo
No full textPlanarians grow when they are fed and shrink during periods of starvation. However, it is unclear how they maintain appropriate body proportions as their size changes. A new paper in Development investigates the differences between growth and shrinkage dynamics and builds a mathematical model to explore the mechanisms underpinning these two processes. To learn more about the story behind the paper, we caught up with first author, Jason Ko, and corresponding author, Daniel Lobo, Associate Professor at the University of Maryland.https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.20298
Ep. #085 - Jason W. Moore
No full textThis recording and transcript form part of a collection of podcasts conducted by the Cultures of Energy at Rice University. Cultures of Energy brings writers, artists and scholars together to talk, think and feel their way into the Anthropocene. We cover serious issues like climate change, species extinction and energy transition. But we also try to confront seemingly huge and insurmountable problems with insight, creativity and laughter.Cymene and Dominic talk capital and Vanilla Isis and then (11:21) we welcome to the podcast the one and only Jason W. Moore from Binghamton University, author of Capitalism in the Web of Life (Verso, 2015) and Anthropocene or Capitalocene? (PM Press, 2016). We chat with Jason about his most recent work, co-authored with Raj Patel, A History of the World in Seven Cheap Things (U California Press, 2017), forthcoming this October. We talk about why he wanted to write a book for a broader audience, the problems with the “anthropocene” concept in the human sciences, how “capitalocene” can improve our thinking about world history, and how we can avoid vulgar materialism in critical environmental research and activism today. We cover the role that states and agriculture have played in shaping modern capitalism and Jason calls for a seriously engaged pluralism to tackle the urgent challenges of our era. We discuss the cheapening or thingification of life, capitalism as a gravitational field, the importance of frontiers, the violence of the Great Domestication, and why if green energy remains in the mode of “cheap fuel” nothing will change about capitalist accumulation. Jason explains why racial and gender domination are so often lacunae in critiques of petromodernity. Finally we ruminate on how to unmake the capitalist world-ecology and the key principles of the “reparation ecology” that Jason and his colleagues are calling for. Tired of the debate within the left about whether to prioritize jobs or the environment? Then you’ll want to listen on
NPS Concludes Sleep Study aboard Jason Dunham
No full texthttp://www.navy.mil/submit/display.asp?story_id=71230Article author is Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Deven King, USS Jason Dunham Public AffairsUSS JASON DUNHAM, At Sea (NNS) -- Sailors aboard guided-missile destroyer USS Jason Dunham
(DDG 109) concluded their participation in a two-week sleep study, Dec. 17.
The study was conducted by personnel from the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) who came
aboard Jason Dunham to interview crewmembers about their watch rotations and monitor their
sleep patterns, activity periods and reaction times
An Interview with Cass R. Sunstein: Author of The World According to Star Wars
No full textThe guest editors of special issue 12, Jason W. Ellis and Sean Scanlan, interview Cass R. Sunstein, the Robert Walmsley University Professor at Harvard, where he is founder and director of the Program on Behavioral Economics and Public Policy. He is the author of many books, including the bestseller Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness (with Richard H. Thaler). His 2016 book The World According to Star Wars attempts to understand the Star Wars universe in ten chapters through the lenses of Sunstein’s academic interests, namely: culture, sociology, psychology, behavioral science, and political science. The book is both personal and theoretical, practical and academic. It takes accurate measure of the genesis of the movies, the movies themselves, and briefly, but trenchantly, it examines concepts such as reputational cascades and speculates on what Star Wars can teach viewers about constitutional disputes
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