Tuesday, August 03, 2004 - Posts

IBM frees code

 IBM and the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) today announced that IBM is contributing more than half-million lines of relational database code to the ASF.

Bill Gates, has singled out IBM's WebSphere as the leading challenger to .Net. "Over the next few years, one of those will emerge as a better piece of software"

Microsoft Research Faculty Summit

 Are you intrigued by the notion of invisible computing? Curious about research directions in social computing? Wondering about the possibility of using statistical analysis to locate spam Web pages? If topics like that sound intriguing to you, then the epicenter of your universe this week is probably Redmond, Washington. That's where many of the world's leading computer science and computer engineering researchers have gathered for the fifth annual Microsoft Research Faculty Summit.