The 2006 Turing Award has been given to Frances Allen. This is the first time that this honor has been awarded to a woman. See the ACM press release for details. I have to admit that I am not familiar with Frances Allen. Her background is in compiler design and program [...]
Blogger has finally implemented a backtracking feature (now if only they’ll add categories, I can be content), and I’ve replaced the Technorati trackback link at the bottom of each post with a Blogger ‘backlink’. Just in time, as it turns out, for my last post to actually get linked to. Thanks Suresh and [...]
I usually avoid short posts like this, but here’s a bit of news via Michael Nielsen that I thought warranted an immediate mention: Scott Aaronson has started his own blog, Shtetl-Optimized.
And since I had to look it up myself, here is what a shtetl is.