A city of contrasts, New Haven is a mix of colonial history, Ivy League college town, and past-its-prime industrial center. Once an important manufacturing center, it is known today as the home of prestigious Yale University.
With the new alliance, GLAAD, already a powerful watchdog group, will begin to monitor online media and build contacts with the tech community. GLAAD focuses on getting fair representations of gays and lesbians in film, television, and the news. Now it will also be watching cyberspace.
Weâre going to start off this blog with a couple of basic posts explaining what Dryad and DryadLINQ are. Iâm going to start by introducing Dryad, and Yuan will follow on with DryadLINQ. Dryad is an execution engine that is optimized for certain types of distributed computation.ryad has been doing the heavy-lifting for all of Bingâs data-mining since mid-2006, these days mostly programmed using a language called SCOPE that the Bing team developed. It has also spread to a lot of smaller clusters inside Microsoft, used for tasks like botnet detection, computational biology and computer vision.