February 25, 2008: The BARDD group receives two grants

Dr. Penry has been awarded a $12,000 Research Initiation Grant from the College of Engineering and a $19,997 Mentoring Environment Grant from the Office of Research and Creative Activities, both for research on Adaptive Online Parallel Optimization

Jan 15, 2008: Michael Williams joins the BARDD group

The BARDD group welcomes Michael Williams to its ranks as an undergraduate research assistant.

Sep 1, 2007: Daniel Rich joins the BARDD group

The BARDD group welcomes Daniel Rich to its ranks as an undergraduate research assistant.

August 20, 2007: IEEE CAL paper appears

A paper which Dr. Penry co-authored entitled UNISIM: An Open Simulation Environment and Library for Complex Architecture Design and Collaborative Development has been published in IEEE Computer Architecture Letters.

Why BARDD?

The word bardd is a Welsh word meaning bard. A bard is an ancient Celtic poet, though William Shakespeare is sometimes referred to as "the Bard". At any rate, bardd made a good acronym which acknowledges Dr. Penry's Welsh ancestry and liking for Celtic music and poetry. Also, when mispronounced by English speakers, it sounds like what it means. (Note: bardd should be pronounced as "barth" where the "th" is voiced as in "this".) Finally, it gives a good name for the group members: bards. (In Welsh, the plural would actually be beirdd, but that's too much to expect people to remember.) And maybe someday we'll post some poetry....

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