Special Interest Group on CRAP

Web apps
iPhone apps
Android apps
now Kindle apps

Whatever happened to Windows apps?

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During my lifetime, there have been several major paradigm shifts in computing.

The personal computer
Graphical user interfaces (mouse and windowing)
The Internet
The World Wide Web
Laptops (they started out as computers called “luggables”)
802.11 wireless networking

Each of these brought tremendous change to the ways that we think about computing. One of the reasons why I started working on [...]

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It’s always sad news when someone you know dies. Regrettably, Sam Roweis died last night, apparently by taking his own life. It is always difficult to comprehend the situation that could lead to this, and my heart goes out to his family and friends. I had the pleasure of working with Sam [...]

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It’s odd that Facebook was blocking post of a link to this. For the humor impaired, this should be recognized as satire.

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I went back to look at the spam that is sent out by ACM trying to get me to buy a membership. It turns out that it is sent out on the 11th of each month, right on schedule. I guess that means there is a cron job someplace that is firing off [...]

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