Archive for October 2008
Programming Languages - 6 Scripting Languages Your Developers Wish You'd Let Them Use
Posted on Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 12:59 PM by Malcolm
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6 Scripting Languages Your Developers Wish You'd Let Them Use
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10 Great Tech Books
Posted on Sunday, October 19, 2008 at 6:59 PM by Malcolm
From the July issue of IEEE Spectrum, below are 10 great general-interest books about technology.- The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance by Henry Petroski
- Mirror Worlds; or, The Day Software Puts the Universe in a Shoebox...How it Will Happen and What it Will Mean by David Gelernter
- A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas R. Hofstadter
- The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
- The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman
- The Codebreakers: The Story of Secret Writing by David Kahn
- Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age by Paul Graham
- Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time by Dava Sobel
- The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
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Professor Who Wrote 200,000+ Books
Posted on Saturday, October 18, 2008 at 12:17 PM by Malcolm
This interesting article describes how a management science professor make use of publicly available data on internet and computer AI to automatically "generate" 200,000 books and publishes and sells them for profit.Edited on: Saturday, October 18, 2008 12:18 PM
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Oxford and Cambridge offer lectures on Apple's iTunes
Posted on Wednesday, October 08, 2008 at 10:21 AM by Malcolm
The universities of Oxford and Cambridge are to make lectures by well-known academics available through Apple's iTunes.More than 150 hours of free audio and video podcasts from the University of Oxford are now available on a new site on iTunes U.
Cambridge on iTunes U offer more than 300 audio and video tracks covering a broad range of themes; delve into the Enron scandal, take a guided tour of the exhibitions at the Fitzwilliam museum by leading experts, and listen to the regular contributions from the St John's College choir - all without having to leave your house!
Edited on: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 10:22 AM
