What a week! (and new toys)

18 years ago

This has been an extremely busy week. It's been the first time since my PhD I actually stayed at the…

John W. Backus, 82, Fortran Developer, Dies – New York Times

18 years ago

John W. Backus, who assembled and led the I.B.M. team that created Fortran, the first widely used programming language, which…

R2D2 as a letter box!

18 years ago

I went to the US Postal Services website to let them know of my upcoming change of address and I…

BPEL for Windows Workflow Foundation March CTP

18 years ago

I just read on the Web about the availability of this package from Microsoft. Cool. I knew a CTP was…

Steven is joining Microsoft

18 years ago

Woo hoo! I've been waiting to blog about this for some time. Steven Newhouse is joining Microsoft and the HPC…

New skis, bindings, and boots

18 years ago

This must be one of the smartest purchases I've made. My Salomon X-Frees have been getting really really old; I…

SecPAL Preview

18 years ago

A group of people I really like in Microsoft (they are a fun team) released their very interesting work as…

TechFest, Technical Computing, and Steve Balmer

18 years ago

I am having a blast these days even though it's been pretty busy (especially with the condo buying process in…

Minority Report-like human-computer interaction

18 years ago

This prototype implementation looks very cool. If the idea takes off, we may finally find ourselves doing some exercise while working…

Technical Computing @ Microsoft site up

18 years ago

Our Technical Computing @ Microsoft (my team's web site) is live. Woo hoo! No feed for changes yet or blog…