[Purdue-pm] PM meeting this Tuesday, June 15th
Rick Westerman
westerman at purdue.edu
Thu Jun 10 08:28:02 PDT 2010
Bizarrely I had the current meeting on the Monday the 21st from noon
to 1:30 (I actually blame our scheduling person but really I should have
caught the mistake earlier.) Anyway ... the meeting is now properly
schedule on June 15th, 11:30 to 1:30 in WSLR 116. Social time from
11:30 to noon. Presentations from noon onward.
No talks are currently scheduled but that does not seem to stop us
from having an interesting last minute presentation.
We do have several challenge problems out on the table. The most
recent is from Joe and is summarized below. I had suggested that the
fastest way to access the data was via an array. And indeed Mark sent
out an elegant solution that used an array. I am not sure if we can do
better than that. That is the solution is O(1) ignoring, as is typical,
setup time. And space is O(x) where 'x' is the size of the array.
However what if we have a very large and sparse array? And if we do
wish to consider setup time plus minimizing memory space? Then what
type of solution can be found?
The other challenge problem on the table is Michael's from a couple
of months ago. He presented a 'C'-based solution that is much speedier
than his Perl-based ones. The overall challenge is to come up with (a)
either a more speedy solution or (b) a fast Perl-based solution.
The final challenge is one that I off-handedly mentioned: how to
interactively present customer information on a web page. There are
many different ways to do this and the challenge here is not to create
the 'best' way but rather to show each other new techniques and perhaps
to explore new techniques on our own in the safety of a non-critical
application. In the June meeting I will present the API methods we can
use to create our solutions. These solutions will be presented in July
& August.
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Rick Westerman westerman at purdue.edu Bioinformatics specialist at the
Genomics Facility. Phone: (765) 494-0505 FAX: (765) 496-7255 Department
of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture 625 Agriculture Mall Drive
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2010 Physically located in room S049, WSLR
building
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