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Submission + - Turing award announced

Submitted by wannabgeek on Thursday February 22, 2007 @10:02AM

wannabgeek writes: Turing award for the year 2006 is awarded to Frances Allen, an IBM Fellow Emeritus, for her work in compiler optimizers. From this article: she also "worked on writing intelligence analysis software for the National Security Agency. More recently she helped design software for IBM's Blue Gene supercomputer." It is the first time a woman won this honour. She was also the first woman to become IBM Fellow in 1989.

Submission + - IBM files patent Infringment suits against Amazon

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on Monday October 23, 2006 @09:46PM

wannabgeek writes: "IBM filed a lawsuit against Amazon claiming willful infringement of its patents on various aspects of e-commerce. Here is another article about the same — claiming the suits were filed in Texas because districts there move quickly and are perceived as relatively responsive to intellectual-property claims. One interesting tidbit from the article: There appears to be no sensitive customer relationship at stake in the IBM-Amazon tussle. Traditionally a big customer of Hewlett-Packard Co., Amazon does little if any business with IBM. May be this will spur Amazon also to join the fight for clean up of the patent system."

Submission + - Gag order on military lawyers

Submitted by wannabgeek on Sunday October 15, 2006 @10:18AM

wannabgeek writes: Excite news reports that A paralegal and a military lawyer who brought forward allegations about prisoner abuse at the Guantanamo Bay detention center have been ordered not to speak with the press. A spokeswoman for the Marines confirmed the order, saying the lawyer's supervisor — Col. Carol Joyce, the Marines' chief defense counsel — had directed him not to communicate with the media "pending her review of the facts."

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