Wired Magazine has published their list of “biggest spoken gaffes” by technical executives in 2005. You can read the top quotes in the article on the Wired web site.
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Merry Christmas 2005 from David I. I hope you have the best Christmas, Kwanzaaa, Chanukkah, Family Day, Festivus, and all of the other holidays you celebrate at this time of year.
My greatest hope is for peace around the world.
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As part of my trip around the world promoting Delphi 2006, I stopped in to the offices of csdn.net in Beijing. I spent the afternoon of December 6th answering questions from Borland experts, students, and programming magazine editors. Gordon Li, the “David I” of Greater China and Vivian Wang, Borland China marketing director were also there to answer […]
Do you want to create your own search portal, integrate web search into our applications, and have access to terrabytes of archived web data? I was reading Wired News online about how Alexa (a subsidiary of Amazon.com) is opening up their web crawler to developers and others. The fee based platform (pricing) is now available to everyone […]
CNN.com posted a story today that describes computer-based emotion recognition software that was used to analyze the famous smile of Leonardo Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa painting. The story refers to a recent British weekly journal, “New Scientist“, report about the software developed by Nicu Sebe (University of Amsterdam) and researchers at the Beckman Institute, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. The software examines key facial features (curvature of the […]
While I was in Tokyo last weekend, I read an article published in the International Herald Tribune newspaper titled, "Plagiarism hits open-source world". The article talks about software companies that are using open source software but are failing to honor the licenses. The article goes on to mention how the "plagiarism" can affect acquisitions of companies. […]
Sometimes I feel like I am that Where’s Waldo character. I am sorry that I haven’t blogged since the end of October. Why? First there was the US developer conference, then I was off to Brasil for our conference in Sao Paulo. Thanksgiving arrived just after I got back from those conferences. I then embarked on […]