Computer Science (cs) group

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1. Stav Prodromou Information Tech Group , IBM Group , Computer Science , On this Date

   !onthisdate in 1956, FORTRAN was shared with the coding community for the 1st time by !IBM, with publication of its manual. !cs !it

   about 7 months ago from web
2. Stav Prodromou Apple , Computer Science , Electrical Engineering , THE Geek Group , Birthday Celebration

   Happy !Birthday Steve Wozniak, 62 today. Co-founder of !Apple, !cs !ee !geek

   about 10 months ago from web
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3. Stav Prodromou Google , Computer Science , Birthday Celebration , Mathematics Genius

   It's Alan Turing's !birthday, !mathematician (1912 -1954). !CS Check out the !Google #TuringMachine http://identi.ca/url/72424456

   
   about a year ago from web
4. Stav Prodromou Computer Science , On this Date

   !onthisdate in 1822, Charles Babbage proposed his difference engine in a paper to the Royal Astronomical Society !cs http://ur1.ca/9i5ll

   about a year ago from web
5. Stav Prodromou Computer Science , On this Date

   !onthisdate in 1936, Alan Turing submitted "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem" for publication. !cs

   about a year ago from web
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6. Stav Prodromou Information Tech Group , Computer Science , Birthday Celebration

   Happy !birthday David Cutler Sr, 70 today. Developer of operating systems including RSX-11M, VMS at DEC and Windows NT at Microsoft !cs !IT

   about a year ago from web
7. Stav Prodromou Computer Science , Birthday Celebration

   Happy !Birthday Niklaus Wirth, 78 today. Creator of #Pascal & other !cs languages. #Turing Award recipient.

   about a year ago from web at San Francisco, California, United States
8. Stav Prodromou IBM Group , Computer Science , On this Date

   !onthisdate in 1956, !IBM researcher John W. Backus introduced #Fortran, the first modern computer language. !cs

   Saturday, 15-Oct-11 22:51:20 UTC from web at San Francisco, California, United States
9. Stav Prodromou Computer Science , Birthday Celebration

   Happy !Birthday Prof. John Hopcroft, 72 today. Author !CS textbooks on theory of computation, data structures, algorithms, formal languages

   Friday, 07-Oct-11 18:30:37 UTC from web at Los Altos Hills, California, United States
10. Stav Prodromou Computer Science , Birthday Celebration

    Happy !birthday John McCarthy, 84 today. !CS, !Turing Award honoree 1971 for his contributions to AI. He is inventor of LISP prog. language.

    Sunday, 04-Sep-11 21:51:29 UTC from web at Encinitas, California, United States
11. Stav Prodromou Linux , Computer Science , Birthday Celebration

    Happy !birthday Ken Thompson, !cs early !linux developer, 68 today. #Ken. Recipient of #Turing Award, National Medal of Technology.

    Friday, 04-Feb-11 20:20:50 UTC from web at San Francisco, California, United States
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    • Stav Prodromou laurelrusswurm

      @laurelrusswurm The calendar plays strange tricks on us sometimes heh heh

      Friday, 04-Feb-11 20:45:22 UTC
    • laurelrusswurm

      @stav yes, scary coincidence... you might almost say open and closed

      Friday, 04-Feb-11 20:48:29 UTC
    • Stav Prodromou laurelrusswurm

      @laurelrusswurm Perhaps we should declare #Feb4 #openclosed day???

      Friday, 04-Feb-11 21:08:02 UTC
12. Pablo Roberto Castellanos Diéguez Real time reading suggestions , Computer Science , Computer Science , Theoretical Computer Science

    !reading “NP-hard problems” #wikipedia !cstheory !compsci !cs #computer_science http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NP-hard

    Monday, 31-Jan-11 07:48:36 UTC from web at Guatemala City, Departamento de Guatemala, Guatemala
13. Stav Prodromou Computer Science

    It is Countess Ada Lovelace's birthday (1815). English mathematician & writer credited by many as history's first programmer !cs

    Friday, 10-Dec-10 18:34:12 UTC from web at Los Altos, California, United States
14. Stav Prodromou Computer Science , Birthday Celebration

    Remembering Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, Ph.D. on her !birthday (1906). !CS pioneer developed first compiler http://ur1.ca/1103t

    Thursday, 09-Dec-10 18:02:04 UTC from web at San Francisco, California, United States
15. Stav Prodromou Computer Science , Electrical Engineering , On this Date

    !onthisdate in 1968, Douglas Engelbart demonstrated NLS, the predecessor to today's web-browsing computers. http://ur1.ca/2jnbg !cs !ee

    Thursday, 09-Dec-10 17:53:08 UTC from web at San Francisco, California, United States
16. Stav Prodromou Computer Science , Electrical Engineering , Birthday Celebration

    Happy !Birthday Tom West, 71 today. Computer engineer. "The Soul of a New Machine" !ee !cs http://ur1.ca/2elyf

    Monday, 22-Nov-10 20:50:50 UTC from web at San Francisco, California, United States
17. Stav Prodromou Computer Science , Birthday Celebration

    It's George Boole's !birthday (1815). English mathematician is the inventor of Boolean logic, the basis of modern digital computers !cs

    Tuesday, 02-Nov-10 18:34:33 UTC from web at San Francisco, California, United States
18. Stav Prodromou Computer Science , Birthday Celebration

    Happy !birthday Prof. John Hopcroft, 71 today. Winner of Turing Award !cs.

    Friday, 08-Oct-10 00:49:45 UTC from StatusNet Desktop at Los Altos, California, United States
19. Hezy Amiel The History Group

    Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine was a century before its time. So why not build it now? http://ur1.ca/1yyop !cs !history

    Monday, 04-Oct-10 22:53:04 UTC from web at Ramat Gan, Tel Aviv, Israel
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20. Hezy Amiel Computer Science , The History Group

    Very cool model of Babbage machines http://blog.jgc.org/2010/09/babbage-machines-in-meccano.html !cs !history

    Wednesday, 22-Sep-10 16:12:07 UTC from web at Giv‘atayim, Tel Aviv, Israel