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Re:Baidu Takes FPGA Approach to Accelerating SQL at Scale on Wednesday August 24, 2016 @11:08PM (#12356750)
It's no secret. Netezza has been using FPGAs since the beginning. Here is a link to a paper that describes the Netezza approach: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redpapers/pdfs/redp4725.pdf

The Baidu approach seems very similar.

Re:Reinventing coding for the iPad : edit the parse tree on Sunday March 18, 2012 @01:26PM (#3720193)
Have you studied Touch Develop by Microsoft Research? They seem to have found a good way of enabling coding on touch devices. You can get more info at http://www.touchdevelop.com/