Monthly Archives: September 2009
The Ongoing Saga of Bletchley Park's Survival
| September 29, 2009 | Posted by Karl Beecher under News |
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Bletchley Park, which was the codebreaking hub of the Allies during the Second World War and is now a sizeable and very entertaining museum, has had a rough time in recent years. Parts of it are in a dilapidated state and it seems to survive only on charitable donations and the careful devotion of those… read more
The Alan Turing Apology — Why?
| September 7, 2009 | Posted by Karl Beecher under News, Opinion |
Not so long ago, we celebrated the posthumous birthday of Alan Turing, who has achieved heroic status in the computing field. He made critical contributions to algorithms, computation, computer design and artificial intelligence, and famously played a role in the efforts to break the German codes during the Second World War. However, his story does… read more
The Six-Way Epic: Digging Further into FLOSS Repositories
| September 1, 2009 | Posted by Karl Beecher under Research |
Not too long ago, I announced the publishing of my first journal article co-authored with Andrea Capiluppi and Cornelia Boldyreff. My mother was very proud — even if she did not understand a single word of it. I will give a brief summary of the article in this post, and if I succeed in whetting… read more
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