What is a patent? Join the debate Nov 7, 2009
"Such enormously successful software products as Microsoft Word, Oracle Database, Lotus 1-2-3, the Unix operating system, and the GNU C compiler all date from the 1980s or earlier well before the proliferation of software patents," Red Hast said. We'd like to hear what the community of engineers thinks. (EETimes)
Letter to The President: # 4 Nov 5, 2009
It was Tiedmann who as far back as 1989 approached Richard Stallman, author of The GNU C Compiler (GCC), for the latter's blessing to set up his (Tiemann's) company, CYGNUS, a little while after coming across Stallman's compiler. He was amazed by the quality of Stallman's compiler, and decided that it must be possible to build a business around it. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Intel prepares to offer CT parallel programming support Apr 14, 2009
(04/13/2009 5:06 AM EDT). LONDON Intel's CT (C for throughput) software technology, being developed for parallel programming products, will be deployed in a beta version later this year, according to Intel senior vice president Pat Gelsinger, speaking last week at the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing. (EETimes)
Ceva targets DSP cores at 4G mobiles, infrastructure Feb 12, 2009
The DSP core comes with a complete Integrated Development Environment including an optimizing C compiler, emulators, ESL tools and comprehensive software libraries. Page 2. (EETimes)
