The Danny Dig

StefanL, 09.02.06, 21:30

dannyd

His Motto "Success is not for the chosen few, but for the few who choose" is taken from John Maxwell.

Diane Pozefsky

StefanL, 01.02.06, 08:35

CS Research professor at UNC and (former) Director of Storage Networking Architecture at IBM. Not quite in line with the other heroines in the gallery cause she's got a quite large entry in the english wp already. Her homepage is at www.cs.unc.edu. She did her CS studies at Brown University and her professor there was none other than Andries van Dam. Oral history videos...

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Fran Allen

StefanL, 19.01.06, 06:46

Fran Allen has made outstanding contributions to the field of programming languages for almost forty years, and her work has significantly influenced the wider computer science community. Here is her entry at WITI (Women In Technology International) and there is text about her at IBM Research. A historic presentation by her on the "partnership" of processors and compilers can be found...

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Krisztina Holly

StefanL, 15.01.06, 12:22

M.I.T.'s Deshpande Center for Technological Innovations Executive Director has turned an interest in engineering and an aptitude for marketing and entrepreneurship into an exceptionally diverse and rewarding career. Recently taking on the role of executive director of MIT's Deshpande Center for Technological Innovation [2002], Holly plans to share her knowledge of technology, product development, entrepreneurship and the corporate world with...

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Ken and Dennis belong in here of course

StefanL, 15.01.06, 07:19

Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie

And always have. I just thought they were wellknown stars anyway and I'd rather dig out the less wellknown "whodun important work" people.

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Anastassia Ailamaki: Staged Database Systems

StefanL, 10.01.06, 23:53

GOOG being what it is and computing moving away from the 70ies, 80ies, 90ies "Client/Server" computing and "HFS/RDB" (Hierarchical File system/Relational Database) storage paradigm, I still think there are lots of applications for small computers and more conventional research. Quite a lot of people still do good work in those fields. One of them seems to be: Anastassia Ailamaki. And two...

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Gordon Bell, Nomograph

StefanL, 04.01.06, 10:08

Here's an interesting collection of papers on Computer Structures : Principles and Examples by one of those important old men who ended up at MSFTs Bay Area Research Center the acronym of which makes up for a tired echo of Xerox's 70ies thing. Before that he was at Carnegie Mellon and at DEC where hed did development and architecture on...

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Top 5 Computer Scientists in my Most Read

StefanL, 21.12.05, 10:04

Anders HejlsbergTurbo Pascal, C# Grace Murray HopperLibLinkLoader, FlowMatic Chuck PeddleM 6502, PET, Sirius Victor Lorinda Cherryeqn, bc Lynn ConwayMPC, free VLSI

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D'après ce que je vois
vous avez tout à fait raison, Mr. Tobi.

by MaryW (01.03.25, 08:34)

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La crisi consiste appunto nel fatto che il vecchio muore e il nuovo non può nascere: in questo interregno si verificano i fenomeni morbosi piú....

by tobi (28.02.25, 16:22)

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Haschimiten-Familie Vater:Husain ibn 'AliEmir von Mekka von 1908 - 1916König des Hedschas von 1916 - 1924 Sohn Faisal:Verhandlungsführer der "Araber" in Paris König des Irak von 1921....

by StefanL (19.01.25, 06:26)

Ich habe eh
einen Esseh über den Kulturpessimismus, der ja grundlegend mehr reaktionär als konservativ ist, in Arbeit. Wird aber noch dauern.

by StefanL (10.01.25, 23:50)

Jaaa!
Ich geb ja gerne zu, dass der Neid aus mir spricht. ;-)

by StefanL (10.01.25, 23:46)

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Aha soso ein Professor h.k. (honore kurza).

by tobi (10.01.25, 23:30)

I totally agree
mit der Meinung, dass das Hemisphärenmodell überholt ist. Die mediale Lust am Untergang hat eine rational kalkulierendes Element auf der einen Seite und massenpsychologische Element, dass....

by StefanL (10.01.25, 20:15)

Woher kommt diese Lust am Untergang?
Friedrich Sieburg kommentierte »die Tendenz der Medien, unentwegt den Weltuntergang durch einen Atomkrieg vorauszusagen als weinerliche, kaum zu ertragende Geschwätzigkeit. Sie sei auch deswegen absurd,....

by tobi (10.01.25, 19:18)

Read the books,
watched the series for a while. Got distracted then. Did NOT buy the T-Shirt. Interesting problem. Thanks! Slice, slice, very slice. Thank you for not killing....

by StefanL (06.01.25, 11:39)

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Slice, slice, very nice.

by tobi (05.01.25, 23:31)

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by tobi (18.12.24, 12:27)

We could just barely
keep the censor's office and the press team of the president-elect from intervention but here are our apologies and our thanks for these valuable hints....

by MaryW (17.12.24, 23:37)

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The (correct) first name of Mr. Zelenskyj is the Ukrainian Володи́мир, not (of all things) the Russian Влади́мир 😿 Second name is Oleksandrovych. Ложка дьогтю у бочці....

by tobi (16.12.24, 19:15)

Du hast recht,
Universal-Genies brauchen wir echt keine mehr. Ich wollte eh nur sagen: Things are going to slide, slide in all directions. Won't be nothing, won't be nothing you....

by MaryW (31.10.24, 23:13)

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Hm. Ich glaub, da gibt es schon noch einige Kandidat*innen. Mir fällt spontan Lisz Hirn ein. Ich fürchte nur, die schaffen es nicht mehr, so....

by tobi (03.10.24, 19:21)

Das sind
wirklich die allerletzten, diese Streberschweine. Aber sonst auch.

by StefanL (18.09.24, 08:42)

Es gibt sogar
Verbrecher, die das ganze WE zusätzlich durcharbeiten, um Pegelkarten zu bauen. Das sind dann die allerletzten.

by gHack (17.09.24, 18:56)

Geändert
Inzwischen hat Herr Fidler den Fehler erkannt und korrigiert sowie sich inzwischen bei den LeserInnen entschuldigt. Nur damit das nicht untergeht. Wir haben hier in der....

by StefanL (21.02.22, 09:17)

There has been evidence
that the important and successful ideas in MSFT - like licensing the Unix source code in the 70ies and learning from it and licensing QDOS....

by StefanL (02.01.22, 11:18)

Now
I think I maybe know what you meant. It is the present we know best and the future we invent. And history is mostly used....

by StefanL (02.01.22, 09:51)

???
Hey, it's just a phrase wishing to convey that you're always smarter after the event than before it.

by StefanL (28.12.21, 07:35)

Addendum
Oracle is now mentioned in the English Wikipedia article on teletext and even has its own article here. Electra has one too.

by MaryW (22.12.21, 07:11)

We have grossly erred
At least in point 5. We thought, people would have come to the conclusion that permanently listening to directive voices as an adult is so....

by MaryW (21.12.21, 07:42)

Did not want to spell the names out
Ingrid Thurnher should have been easy, as she is pictured in the article. Harald F. is an insider joke, the only media journalist in Austria,....

by StefanL (19.12.21, 08:45)

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with four letters it becomes easier though i am not sure with hafi… anyhoo, inms guessing acronyms or whatever this is. *it’s not my steckenpferd

by tobi (24.11.21, 20:49)