From the monthly archives: October 2011
October 2011 is a bad month in computer history. After Steve Jobs, another computer giant, Dennis Ritchie, passed away. Dennis created the C programming language and, with Ken Thompson, created the UNIX operating system. He is the person who [...]
Steve Jobs 1955-2011 : Apple has lost a visionary and creative genius, and the world has lost an amazing human being. Those of us who have been fortunate enough to know and work with Steve have lost a dear friend and an inspiring mentor. Steve leaves behind a company that only he [...]
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics for 2011, with one half to Saul Perlmutter, and the other half jointly to Brian P. Schmidt and Adam G. Riess, for the discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe through [...]
