Month: November 2012
Computer scientist gallery, updated
After several months of inaction I have updated my “Gallery of Computer Scientists” [1]. It benefits from many recent meetings where the density per square meter of Turing award winners and other brilliant computer scientists was hard to beat, most notably the two extraordinary Turing centenary celebrations — the ACM event in San Francisco, and … Read more
Memories of a dark time
A few years back my mother started writing her memoirs. She only completed a few chapters, hand-written, and I offered to type them up. There was not enough material to approach a publisher (my fault, for not pushing her to write more); the text has remained unpublished. I am making it available now: see … Read more
Technology plus
As the name indicates, this blog is particularly devoted to technology, and even more particularly to software technology. My technical persona is not, however, completely cut off from my personal persona and I increasingly include non-software topics. Whether there is any readership equally interested in learning about using domain theory for specification and finding out … Read more