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		<title>Desktop Computer Inventor Charles Thacker Wins Turing Award</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:05:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When you clicked an icon to launch your web browser to read this article, you can thank Charles Thacker (among others). In 1973, Thacker and a group of scientists at the famed Xerox PARC (Palo Alto Research Center) built the Alto, the world’s first desktop computer.  The Alto featured many innovations that we take for [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Do Your Facebook Friends Really Care That You’re Heading to Bed?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 14:08:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have a friend who announces when she’s going to bed every night on Facebook.  It’s the 21st century equivalent of “Good night, John Boy.”  But does anyone really care? Facebook, MySpace and especially Twitter provide a global platform to the narcissist in each of us.  We tweet the minutia of detail in our normally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Pronounce “Bjarne Stroustrup”</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 13:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bjarne Stroustrup is a Danish-born computer scientist and the College of Engineering Chair Professor of Computer Science at Texas A&#38;M University.&#160; He is most notable for developing the C++ programming language.&#160; But many English speakers fumble at pronouncing his name.&#160; A rough English pronunciation would be &#34;B-yar-ne Strov-stroop&#34;.&#160; Or you can listen here to how [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Software Millionaire Missing in Hawaii</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2008 16:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The millionaire founder of an Internet software security company has gone missing in Hawaii following months of bizarre behavior.  Steven Thomas, 36, was last seen June 30 at a Waikiki hotel. Thomas and ex-girlfiend Kirsten Talley founded Webroot Software in Boulder, Colorado in 1997.  Thomas wrote Spy Sweeper and Window Washer programs.  The pair sold [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Programmer Productivity: The &#8220;Tenfinity Factor&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 15:35:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s widely accepted in the software industry that some programmers are much more productive than others. Many experts cite an order-of-magnitude productivity difference between the &#8220;best&#8221; and &#8220;average&#8221; programmers. This &#8220;factor of 10&#8243; difference is so commonly referenced that &#8220;10X Software Development&#8221; is the name of the blog by development productivity guru Steve McConnell, who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>40 Years of Cubicles</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Mar 2008 22:24:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In 1968, inventor Robert Propst revolutionized the American workplace with his &#8220;Action Office&#8221; design for the Herman Miller furniture company.  Propst intended to create a more dynamic and flexible workspace, but the end result was the much-maligned office cubicle. Forty years ago, most office workers were jammed together in open rooms.  Propst&#8217;s idea was to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Famous Programmer on Trial for Murder</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:56:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hans Reiser, a programmer famous for creating the ReiserFS computer file system for Linux, is charged with killing his wife, whose body has never been found. Reiser, 44, testified in his murder trial that he tried to figure out what happened to his wife after she disappeared in September 2006.&#160; His defense attorney suggested Nina [...]]]></description>
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