Thacker FTW!
Tuesday, March 9th, 2010Charles Thacker has won the 2009 Turing Award for his work on the Alto, the first modern personal computer. Congratulations!
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Charles Thacker has won the 2009 Turing Award for his work on the Alto, the first modern personal computer. Congratulations!
Canpages Contest
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010Canpages has launched an API contest today that gives students a chance to show what they can do with 1.3 million Canadian business listings, photos, videos, recommendations, and lat/longs. This video and this press release explain what it's all about, and you can check out the API itself at ...
Humanitarian Free & Open Source Symposium
Sunday, February 28th, 2010The second annual HFOSS is taking place March 10 in Milwaukee (along with SIGCSE 2010). F&OS communities helped save a lot of lives after the Haiti disaster, and many of the social and technical tools developed for it (and earlier, Katrina) are being used right now to help Chile; hope ...
Summer of Code 2010
Wednesday, February 24th, 2010Google Summer of Code 2010 is now up and running. Mentoring organizations can apply March 8-12, and students can apply March 29-April 9 (but should start working on their applications as soon as the list of organizations is announced). The University of Toronto has always been a strong presence in ...
Basie 0.6 Has Been Released
Tuesday, February 16th, 2010We are pleased to announce the release of Version 0.6 of Basie, a lightweight software project portal built on Django and jQuery. Basie is designed to replace Trac and DrProject; its main features are: Multiple projects per forge Role-based access control Pluggable user account management Per-project wiki with standard WikiCreole syntax Subversion repository browser Per-project mailing ...
GSoC 2010
Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010Google Summer of Code 2010 is on for 2010! They will begin accepting applications from would-be mentoring organizations on March 8th, with applications closing on March 12th. Students can apply between March 29th and April 9th.
H-FOSS Symposium March 10
Thursday, December 24th, 2009The Humanitarian Free Open Source Software initiative is holding its next symposium on March 10 in Milwaukee to coincide with SIGCSE 2010. If I can find a way to get there that doesn't violate my "no fly" pledge, I'd really like to attend; if you're going to be in the ...
Subtle Technologies Festival
Thursday, December 17th, 200913th Annual Subtle Technologies Festival Call for Submissions Deadline January 9, 2010 Festival Dates: June 3 --- 6, 2010 This year's Subtle Technologies Festival will explore sustainability through a critical multidisciplinary lens. We invite investigations of the role that decentralization, diversity and societal power dynamics play in our attempts at maintaining a sustainable future. We look forward to ...
Special Issue
Wednesday, November 18th, 2009A special issue of Computing in Science & Engineering that Andy Lumsdaine and I edited, devoted to software engineering in computational science, is now available. We'd like to thank everyone who contributed: Report on the Second International Workshop on Software Engineering for CSE, by Jeffrey Carver (University of Alabama) Managing Chaos: Lessons ...
Good Day, Knitters
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009StreetKnit has started its 2009 winter drive, and you can help: drop off any handmade knitted socks, sweaters, toques, or what-not at one of their collection points, and they'll get it to someone in need. Please help them make someone's winter a little warmer this year.