How deep can Intel get inside the smart grid? (ZDNet)
I think a lot about which companies that I've been covering for zillions of years will be around 10 years from now, as the Internet moves into its next phase of innovation around things like machine to machine communications, which is sort of personified in the smart grid. If you think Microsoft and IBM and Hewlett-Packard are invincible, pause a moment to memorialize Digital Equipment Corp ...
Winner of `Nobel of computing' at a glance (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
NAME: Charles Thacker AGE: 67 EDUCATION: B.S. in physics, University of California at Berkeley, 1967 CAREER: University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley Computer Corp., 1968-1970; Computer Science Laboratory at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center , 1970-1983; Digital Equipment Corp.'s Systems Research Center, 1983; Microsoft Research, Cambridge Lab, 1997; Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley ...
Winner of 'Nobel of computing' at a glance (WFMJ Youngstown)
CAREER: University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley Computer Corp., 1968-1970; Computer Science Laboratory at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), 1970-1983; Digital Equipment Corp.'s Systems Research Center, 1983; Microsoft Research, Cambridge Lab, 1997; Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley Campus, 2005.
911 districts request funding changes (Chattanooga Times Free Press)
Local 911 districts will receive more than $4 million this year from the state Emergency Communications Board.
Copper Queen expands Womanâs Wellness services (Douglas Dispatch)
BISBEE -- Copper Queen Community Hospital is upgrading its diagnostic services with the addition of a new digital mammography unit, replacing the analogue system, to ethance our Women’s Wellness services and otTer an important resource to local residents, said Jim Dickson, Hospital CEO.
Winner of `Nobel of computing' at a glance (AP via Yahoo! News)
NAME: Charles Thacker
Firehouse donates to Suffolk police (WAVY TV 10 Portsmouth)
The Suffolk police department has received a donation from the Firehouse Subs Public Safety Foundation.
Soil cleanup is questioned (Worcester Telegram & Gazette)
LEOMINSTER - The proposed Southgate technology park off Route 12 on the Sterling line is under investigation by the state Department of Environmental Protection because contaminated soil allegedly removed by the previous owner is unaccounted for.
Tablet PC Pioneer Wins Turing Award (InformationWeek)
Charles P. Thacker, veteran hardware developer at the Xerox Corp.'s PARC and Microsoft, picks up the prestigious $250,000 prize.
A Talk with the Turing Winner (New York Times)
This is the big week for awards — in computing as well as movies. The Turing Award, often called the Nobel prize of computer science, was announced on Tuesday and the 2009 winner was Charles P. Thacker.
