=== Fernando Perez, Traits for program configuration ===

- Tconfig, part of ipython
- .ini file is standard for config files, parsed/generated by Python library ConfigObj
- Write your configuration files form GUI

=== Leonard Reder, JPL, software for future Mars Rover (MSL) ===
 
- PowerPC 750 processor, VxWorks OS, 140 threads
- Autocode: build code from formal interface identification

=== Charlie Curry, Numenta platform for intelligent computing ===

- Hierarchical temporal memory
	- Network of learning nodes
	- Assume temporal stability
- Split computation across cores
	- Distributed runtime engine
- Python + SWIG

=== Rick Wagner, scientific computing course ===

- http://lca.ucsd.edu/projects/scicomp

=== Brian Granger, pyStream ===

- stream and GPU computing in Python
- NVIDIA GPU, 128 processing elements, 500 GFlops
	- CUDA, C extensions, FFT and BLAS
	- write GPU kernels, in C
	- write C code to allocate GPU memory, copy CPU -> GPU, call GPU kernels, copy data back, deallocate memory
- pyStream: everything is in Python except GPU kernels
- pystream.googlecode.com
- plan for higher-level abstractions

=== Prabhu Ramachandran, TVTK and MayaVi2 ===

- TVTK: VTK + Traits + Numpy
- MayaVi: GUI based, scriptable

=== Gael Varoquaux, mlab: a pylab-like interface to Mayavi2 ===

- mayavi: interactive and high-quality, but difficult to access
- mlab: scripting interface

=== Robert Kern, better than spectral color maps ===

- study colormaps in perceptual color space to emphasize intuitiveness
- gray is easily interpretable, heat is also reasonable