“A judge on Tuesday ordered Microsoft to stop selling Word, one of its premier products, in its current form due to patent infringement.Judge Leonard Davis of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a permanent injunction that “prohibits Microsoft from selling or importing to the United States any Microsoft Word products [...]

“Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine by W. Daniel Hillis Nobel prize winner physicist Richard Feynman played a critical role in developing the first parallel-processing computer and finding innovative uses for it in numerical computing and building neural networks as well as physical simulation with cellular-automata such as turbulent fluid flow, working with Stephen Wolfram.” [...]

“30 Most Influential People In ProgrammingPosted on 29. Jul, 2009 by Andy in ProgrammingEarlier in the month we released a post called 30 Most Influential People In Web Design which showcased our favorite 30 web designers. Today we want to show off our favorite 30 programmers who have inspired and influenced so many people to [...]

Elaine Morgan is a tenacious proponent of the aquatic ape hypothesis: the idea that humans evolved from primate ancestors who dwelt in watery habitats. Hear her spirited defense of the idea — and her theory on why mainstream science doesn’t take it seriously. via Elaine Morgan says we evolved from aquatic apes | Video on [...]

“Microsoft’s Empty Promise Last week, Microsoft extended the terms of their Community Promise to implementations of the ECMA 334 and 335 standards. You might think this means it’s safe to write your software in C#. However, this promise is full of loopholes, and it’s nowhere near enough to make C# safe.” via Microsoft’s Empty Promise [...]

“We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people.” via We Choose the Moon.

Computerworld “Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created. In August 1969, Ken Thompson, a programmer at AT&T subsidiary Bell Laboratories, saw the month-long departure of his wife and young son as an opportunity to [...]

  Modern.Marvels.Creation.of.the.Computer This is a good historical documentary of the steps along the way of creating modern day computers.  Particularly interesting is the archival video of actual early computers and the people who invented them, used them, and their impacts on history.