This is really cool: Fran Allen, a founder of the field of program optimization and compiler analysis, will be the first woman to receive the Turing Award. More info, including a description of her accomplishments, is at the ACM press release.
12:25 pm February 23, 2007
under compilers, computers, research
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The excellent “Take Control” series of Mac ebooks has updated “Take Control of OS X Backups” to version 2.0.
I have gotten a lot of use out of their other books. “Take Control of Your Airport Network” saved me a lot of frustration setting up a network for my roommates, and “Take Control of [...]
read the rest.BibDesk 1.3 was just released (see here for very complete release notes), and this release adds a few features that were requested four years ago - searching PubMed and libraries with Z39.50 support. If you use those resources, this means no more downloading files to import references - just search from within BibDesk, and your [...]
read the rest.If you’re like me and don’t have a Leopard Preview, and if you haven’t seen the Leopard Developer Application Technologies Overview, you should take a look. There’s some pretty interesting stuff coming down the pipe. I like the Calendar store, which lets any application work with the iCal calendar info in much the same way [...]
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