Researchers from Switzerland and South Africa have designed a visual interface that would give autonomous machines the equivalent of body language. The interface uses a clustering algorithm and a fractal generator.
"Our idea of communication has a strong focus on learning and interpretation — trying to create relationships between the internal machine variables and the macroscopic […]
Today is the 19th anniversary of the day I started at Borland. I am so happy to be here for the same reasons (and more) that first brought me here - 1) to be a part of improving the process of programming, 2) to build cool solutions for developers, 3) to enrich the lives of programmers, […]
U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee approves spyware bill - bill would require software that collects personal information from computer users to notify them of its installation, get their consent before installation and provide users with easy uninstall options. The Securely Protect Yourself Against Cyber Trespass Act , the SPY ACT (I wish I could always come […]
Some of the top high tech CEO(s) - Steve Ballmer (Microsoft), Bruce Chizen (Adobe), John Thompson (Symantec), Art Coviello (RSA Security), George Samenuk (McAfee Security), - told congress to invest more in education, especially in math and science. I think everyone would agree (I certainly would). Several articles tell the news about their remarks:
http://biz.yahoo.com/rc/040616/tech_education_ceos_1.html
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/040616/technology_lobbying_2.html
So how […]
Keith Lea says, "I was sick of hearing people say Java was slow, when I know it’s pretty fast, so I took the benchmark code for C++ and Java from the now outdated Great Computer Language Shootout and ran the tests myself." The results are available on his web site at http://kano.net/javabench/ in an HTML document […]
In an article, “Hack Out the Useless Extras" in New Scientist magazine (June 6, 2004,. Vol. 182, No. 2450, page. 26), Nicholas Negroponte, MIT Media Lab founding chairman, 1999 Borland Conference Philadelphia keynote speaker, and author of The New York Times bestselling “Being Digital“, says “The speed and performance of software worsens with each succeeding release because of featuritis, […]
We keep hearing how fewer and fewer women are entering (or staying in) engineering and computer science programs at universities and colleges. Carnegie Mellon and other schools have been studying the trends and issues and prescribing solutions. At our own (close to Borland’s Scott’s Valley offices) University of California at Santa Cruz an undergraduate student […]
“For the 11th consecutive year, Computerworld conducted a survey to identify the 100 best places to work for IT professionals. In November 2003, Computerworld accepted nominations. To qualify, companies, both public and private, had to have 2003 revenue of $250 million or greater and employ a minimum of 500 people in the U.S., with a […]
The “3-C’s” that drive the Borland Developer Network (BDN) forward are content, communication, and collaboration. Articles and code drive the content portion. Email, news, newfeeds, and newsgroups drive the communications. Quality Central, threaded conversations, ratings, voting, pulse, and more drive the collaboration.
I just read the announcement that the gaming community helped the authorities to track down […]
I was reading Slashdot and saw a post about a patent Microsoft received for a Task List window in IDE(s). I’ve included the #, abstract, and the URL to the patent which was applied for on March 6, 2000.
United States Patent Number: 6,748,582
Chiles, et al. June 8, 2004
Title: Task list window for use in an […]