Donald Knuth, author of the all-time best Computer Science book series (in my opinion), "The Art of Computer Programming", was recently interviewed by Andrew Binstock for informIT.com. The interview is very indepth covering programming, methods, tools, history, architecture, and more. I’ve listed a few of the interview highlights that caught my eye.
On unit testing: "the idea […]
I have been following Nicholas Negroponte’s One Laptop per Child (OLPC) initiative since its inception. This month, starting November 12th in North America, OLPC is running a "get one, give one" program. For $399 you can get the laptop and also have one sent to a child in a developing country. The details are available on the […]
October 21, 2007 article on the InternetNews.com web site contains a recent interview with James Gosling, "the father of Java".
The interview article starts by stating, "There is strength in numbers, but Java’s future — as well as the long-term acceptance of NetBeans and other Sun products — depends on how well these technologies play in […]
My first programming language in college was a Fortran program to list prime numbers. I was a freshman (Fall 1969) at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo where I was an Aeronautical Engineering major for one quarter before I changed my major to Computer Science. Last week, on Saturday March 17th, John W. Backus passed away at the age […]
We lost a great member of the software development community today. Mansour Safai passed away peacefully in his sleep last night at around 2:45 AM. I remember being on several developer conference panels with Mansour and having great technical and business discussions in meetings, hallways, and airports. His impact in the development industry has been […]
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has pledged $15 million to the Computer History Museum (CHM). The CHM is located in Mountain View, California in the heart of the Silicon Valley. The museum contains many online and physical exhibits. The museum also holds events that capture the living history from the people who were involved in industry milestones. The CHM also contains […]
I was driving over the hill to our Cupertino office this morning listening to the Morning Edition show on NPR radio. Seldom do I hear something about computer science or our industry. I was pleasantly surprised to hear a story about Donald Knuth and his series of books called “The Art of Computer Programming”. Knuth […]
Back in October I first read BusinessWeek Online’s interview with Steve Jobs in their Voices of the Innovators series of articles. The title of the interview article is "The Seed of Apple’s Innovation". I enjoyed reading about Jobs focusing on important projects, "saying no to 1,000 things so as to concentrate on the really important" […]