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Although I've written elsewhere about the recent court case of Symbian v Comptroller General of Patents, noting that it was bad news, I hadn't realised quite how bad the news was until I went through the complete judgment.

“I might as well flame a bit about my personal unhappiness with the current trend toward multicore architecture. To me, it looks more or less like the hardware designers have run out of ideas, and that they’re trying to pass the blame for the future demise of Moore’s Law to the software writers by giving us machines that work faster only on a few key benchmarks!

Interview with Donald Knuth Linux Today Mon, 04/28/2008 - 12:15 informIT: "Andrew Binstock and Donald Knuth converse on the success of open source, the problem with multicore architecture, the disappointing lack of interest in literate programming, the menace of reusable code, and that urban legend

Via Brad DeLong, I learnt about this interview of Andrew Binstock with Knuth, in which, as the one paragraph summary at the beginning indicates Andrew Binstock and Donald Knuth converse on the success of open source, the problem with multicore architecture, the disappointing lack of interest in

I recently stumbled across a rather cool website called Peoples Archive. It has tons of short videos with “the world’s greatest thinkers, creators, and achievers.” While some of the categories seem to have sparser coverage than others, it’s still a wonderful idea (sort of like TED but in miniature),

During the writing of Rebel Code I had the privilege of talking to nearly all of the world's top hackers. Among those, Donald Knuth is pretty much at the apex, certainly in the world of computer science. His interviews are all-too rare these days, not least because he is racing against time to write as much of his magnum opus, The Art of Computer Programming, as he can.