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The ACM A.M. Turing Award - my thoughts for next year’s selection

On June 15 and 16 of 2012 we celebrated the 100th anniversary of the birth of Alan Turing (June 23, 1912) in San Francisco (http://turing100.acm.org/final_program/tcc_final_program.pdf) with 33 living ACM A.M. Turing Award winners!  It was especially great to see Nicklaus Wirth on the "Programming Languages: Past Achievements and Future Challenges" panel along with Susan Graham, [...]

2012 12 31 David Intersimone Compilers
Object Oriented Programming
Pascal
Programming
S/W Engineering
UML Comments (4)

Want more…Exploration

The Space Shuttle Atlantis landed this morning on Runway 15 at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida at 5:57am EDT.  The landing marked the end of 30 years of the Space Shuttle program.  I want more explorations both robotic and manned spacecraft.  In Star Trek we were told over and over again "To boldly [...]

2011 07 21 David Intersimone C++
C++Builder
Delphi
Education
Embarcadero
JBuilder
Java
Programming
RAD Studio
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25 years here - today - development tools are even better

On June 18, 1985 I joined Borland International in Scotts Valley California.  It was great to come to a developer tools and software company.  It is a special treat to be able to work on developer tools and be a developer.  25 years have passed and they have all been great years.   There have been [...]

2010 06 18 David Intersimone Agile
C++
C++Builder
Cloud Computing
Database
Delphi
Education
Embarcadero
History
Java
Languages
Modeling
PHP
Pascal
Prism
Programming
RAD Studio
REST
RadPHP
Random Thoughts
Ruby
Technology
Travel
Windows
ednfront Comments (8)

What makes a good (tech) book read?

Michael Swaine, of Dr. Dobb’s Journal Swaine’s Flames fame (say that fast 10 times), recently blogged with a list of the most commonly mentioned top technical books - "What Makes a (Tech) Book a Classic?".  he also goes on to discuss what makes a technical book a good read.  In one of my past Sip from [...]

2010 04 02 David Intersimone Books
Programming
S/W Engineering Comments (0)

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