Monthly Archives: December 2010
Christopher Özbek and his Flying Colours
| December 19, 2010 | Posted by Karl Beecher under News |
My friend and sometime colleague, Christopher Özbek, presented his final PhD defence on Friday at Freie Universität Berlin. I am pleased to report that he was passed with flying colours, being awarded the highest possible grade (summa cum laude?). His dissertation addresses the matter of how to innovate within FLOSS projects, that is, how to… read more
RIP Sir Maurice Wilkes
| December 16, 2010 | Posted by Karl Beecher under News |
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Somehow I missed the news that Sir Maurice Wilkes died a couple of weeks ago. His achievements were many and went beyond computer science, but just within my own field he is probably best remembered for developing the EDSAC computer (the first computer with an internally stored program) and for co-founding the British Computer Society… read more
Doing the Rounds
| December 13, 2010 | Posted by Karl Beecher under Agile methods, Research |
(This is an old draft article that I rediscovered.) A while ago, while obtaining my regular fix of Ben Goldacre’s pronouncements over at the Bad Science blog, something Ben had had cause briefly to explain lodged into my mind. In a mere couple of sentences, Ben explained what a “grand round” is in the world… read more
Saros sneaks in a November release
| December 1, 2010 | Posted by Karl Beecher under Saros |
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We put out yesterday our latest release of Saros (10.11.26), providing mostly bugfixes and tweaking. All being well this should be our final release of 2010. In the meantime, work continues (including on a whole fistful of new features, which I will remain tight-lipped about for now) and releases will continue again early next January.… read more
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