Computer Science (cs) group

Notices

1. Stav Prodromou On this Date

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

   about 3 days ago from web
   • laurelrusswurm repeated this.
2. 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 18 days ago from web
3. Stav Prodromou Computer Science , Birthday Celebration

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

   about 4 months ago from web at San Francisco, California, United States
4. 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

   about 8 months ago from web at San Francisco, California, United States
5. 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

   about 8 months ago from web at Los Altos Hills, California, United States
6. 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.

   about 9 months ago from web at Encinitas, California, United States
7. M Computer Science , math

   I approve Google's logo today !math !cs

   about 10 months ago from web
8. 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
   • laurelrusswurm repeated this.
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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
9. 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
10. 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
11. 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
12. 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
13. 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
14. 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
15. 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
16. Hezy Amiel Computer Science , 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
    • Ira repeated this.
17. 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
18. Stav Prodromou Birthday Celebration

    Happy !Birthday "Chuck" Geschke, co-founder of Adober, 71 today.

    Saturday, 11-Sep-10 20:04:08 UTC from web at San Francisco, California, United States
    • Stav Prodromou Computer Science , Ytpos for the amsses!

      ... oops co-founder of Adobe !ypot !cs

      Saturday, 11-Sep-10 20:05:19 UTC
19. Stav Prodromou Information Tech Group , Computer Science

    Can you hack your way to a better job? !it !cs http://ur1.ca/1k0a5

    Wednesday, 08-Sep-10 16:46:14 UTC from web at Los Altos Hills, California, United States
    • joshix

      @stav Better yet -& hear me out here- you cut out the middle man & hack your way into the bank account of the company.

      Wednesday, 08-Sep-10 16:50:35 UTC
    • Stav Prodromou joshix

      @joshix Try it out and let me know how you did. FYI: There is one shared 386 with dial-up available over in Cell block D. E-mail me from it.

      Thursday, 09-Sep-10 02:51:33 UTC
20. Stav Prodromou Computer Science , Birthday Celebration

    Happy !birthday John McCarthy, !cs pioneer in artificial intelligence, 83 today. He is the inventor of the #Lisp programming language.

    Saturday, 04-Sep-10 18:16:17 UTC from web at Los Altos Hills, California, United States