Ed Clarke, a professor of Computer Science at CMU, just won the 2007 ACM Turing Award. The ACM is the Association for Computing Machinery and is the oldest professional group for the computing industry. I first became a member in 2005 and have maintained that membership since. The Turing Award is given in honor of [...]
Archive for 4 February 2008
ACM Turing Award Winner
Posted: 4 February 2008 in UncategorizedTags: acm, acm turing award, cmu, computer science, ed clarke, model checking, turing
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Daedalus loves getting up on the window sill, the better to sniff at his treat jar. He can also look out of our third story window to see what there is to be seen. And bark at it.
How Orwellian, President Bashir!
Posted: 4 February 2008 in UncategorizedTags: china, darfur, david duke, foreign policy, genocide, musa hilal, omar al-bashir, petition, sudan
President Omar al-Bashir of the Sudan is one of those people who really are scumbags through and through. Speaking of scumbags, he has appointed Musa Hilal as an advisor to the minister of internal affairs (ethnic matters). Musa Hilal’s beliefs about ethnic tend towards the clean side. That is, ethnic cleansing. So you can imagine [...]
