Greg Wilson

Biography

Greg Wilson holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Edinburgh, and has worked on high-performance scientific computing, data visualization, and computer security. He is the author of Data Crunching and Practical Parallel Programming (MIT Press, 1995), and is a contributing editor at Doctor Dobb's Journal, and an adjunct professor in Computer Science at the University of Toronto.

Books

Practical Programming (Pragmatic Bookshelf) by Jennifer Campbell , Paul Gries , Jason Montojo , Greg Wilson May 2009 Print: $32.95	Beautiful Code by Andy Oram , Greg Wilson June 2007 Print: $44.99 Ebook: $35.99 (4) (Read Reviews)
Data Crunching (Pragmatic Bookshelf) by Greg Wilson April 2005 Print: $29.95 (3) (Read Reviews)

Articles

You need to enable JavaScript to view more than 15 articles by this author.

Top Ten Data Crunching Tips and Tricks
Publish Date: Jun. 9, 2005Every day, programmers perform unglamorous but necessary data crunching: recycling legacy data, checking configuration files, yanking data out of web server logs, and more. Knowing how to crunch data with the least amount of effort can make the difference between meeting a deadline and making another pot of coffee. Greg Wilson, author of Pragmatic's Data Crunching, offers ten tips for crunch time. Are VHLLs Really High-Level?
Publish Date: Dec. 1, 1999Over the past few years, I have done several medium-sized projects using both Perl and Python. At first, I was very excited by what these Very-High Level Languages (VHLLs) let me do, and how quickly. The more I played with them, however, the less satisfied I was. In particular, I no longer believe that they deserve the 'V' in their name. This article explores why, and suggests some ways in which they could evolve.

Blog

Recent Posts | All Posts

Beautiful Concurrency

August 09 2007

As multicore CPUs and distributed applications become the norm rather than the exception, more and more programmers are discovering that concurrent programming is a lot harder than sequential programming---so much so, in fact, that traditional "hack and patch" approaches simply... read more

Practice and Experience

August 08 2007

One of the reasons there's less beautiful code in the world than most of us would like is that academic computer scientists don't actually seem to care much about it. Other than a lecture or two about commenting and sensible... read more

Recent Posts | All Posts

O'Reilly Community

Biography

Books

Articles

Blog

Buy Direct and Save

Bundle Your Order