“In the movie “2010,” while trying to salvage the mission to Jupiter, the Hal 9000 computer noted, “I enjoy working with human beings, and have stimulating relationships with them.”Well, 2010 is just around the corner, and as usual Hollywood was a little ahead of its time — but in this case, not by much. Oregon State University researchers are pioneering the concept of “rich interaction” — computers that do, in fact, want to communicate with, learn from and get to know you better as a person.”

via ‘Rich Interaction’ May Make Computers A Partner, Not A Product ~ Tech News Watch.

“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.”

via Richard Feynman and The Connection Machine.

“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 become better programmers. Let us know who has inspired you to start and become a better programmer!”

via 30 Most Influential People In Programming | Web Design Tutorials | Creating a Website | Learn Adobe Flash, Photoshop and Dreamweaver.

Cory Doctorow on life in the information economy

via Cory Doctorow on life in the information economy – Business of Software.

Sorting Algorithm Animations

Insertion, Selection, Bubble, Shell, Merge, Heap, Quick and Quick3.

Google Open Sources Wave Soul

“Google programmers open source two components of the Google Wave messaging and collaboration prototype. One includes the Operational Transform, which forms the complex center of the Wave model. Google Wave is an example of the Pushbutton Web, where real-time communications rule the roost.”

“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 – Free Software Foundation.

Google Android Tutorial

“Google has recently released the Android platform for developing mobile applications. The language used for developing Android programs is Java, but it is not Java Micro Edition. No wireless application developer can ignore Android. Google is the best known brand name, among the users of the web and Android comes from Google. I am presenting this hands-on tutorial, as a sequel to my j2me series. Adequate knowledge of core-java ,especially Event-handling, Swing and inner-classes is assumed. Though Android does not make use of Swing, it uses similar ideas.”

“Here are a few scripts, that I find really useful for speeding up my web development time.

I’ve been building up this list as I needed to use them – so they maybe a little raw.

For example often clients send me images with filenames that don’t match my naming standard, so running the appropriate script really helps keep me focussed on the job in hand and not waste too much time reformatting filenames etc.”

via emson… » 18 Useful bash scripts for web developers.

Virtual Neurons Acting Like the Real Thing – The Blue Brain Project | Singularity Hub.