Robin Milner RIP

I recently found out that one of the greatest computer scientists of all time - Robin Milner - passed away recently.

He is best know for 'Calculus of Communicating Systems', a theory for parallel and distributed computing.

Only met him one, very nice chap. Will be sadly missed.

Democracy and Technology

Vote Geek is a site dedicated to building up a picture of the view of candidates on technology issues for the upcoming general election in the U.K. on 6th May 2010.

Transputer Parsys Machine

Here's a blast from the past!

I did my undergraduate project using Occam-2 on one of these machines - oh, happy days!

(Good lord, I think I'm turning into a Computing Pioneer!)

H/T: Kevin Walters

Profound thought for the day

By Nick Carr.

High Frequency Trading

This is rather new to me - we're talking milliseconds here. This does not seem to have a long term future, just thing of the havoc created if they let loose intelligent agents on the problem.

(h/t: Tim Miller)