Leo’s Twitter Updates for 2007-12-18

It’s a foul day for baseball, but a lovely day for indoor TV. Let’s do four. #

Remembering Frances E. Allen | IBM Research Blog 9 August 2020

As a pioneer in compiler organization and optimization algorithms, Fran made seminal contributions to the world of computing. Her work on inter-procedural analysis and automatic parallelization continues to be on the leading edge of compiler research. She successfully reduced this science to practice through the transfer of this technology to products such as the STRETCH […]

Frances E. Allen - Wikipedia 9 August 2020

Deeply in debt, she joined IBM Research in Poughkeepsie, New York, as a programmer in 1957, where she taught incoming employees the basics of Fortran. She planned to return to teaching once her student loans had been paid but ended up staying with IBM for her entire 45-year career. Allen was assigned to the Harvest […]

How Tim Cook Made Apple His Own - WSJ 9 August 2020

Where Mr. Jobs orchestrated great leaps of innovation, generally defined by new products capable of upending industries, Mr. Cook has made Apple more reflective of himself. The 59-year-old CEO, like the company he leads, is cautious, collaborative and tactical.

TikTok To Sue Trump Administration On President's Executive Order Ban : NPR 9 August 2020

NPR has learned that the lawsuit will argue that President Trump's far-reaching action is unconstitutional because it failed to give the company a chance to respond. It also alleges that the administration's national security justification for the order is baseless, according to the source. "It's based on pure speculation and conjecture," the source said. "The […]

Twitter, TikTok Have Held Preliminary Talks About Possible Combination - WSJ 9 August 2020

Microsoft Corp. MSFT -1.79% has been negotiating for weeks with TikTok’s owner, Beijing-based ByteDance Ltd., and is considered the front-runner for any possible deal, according to the people. Twitter is seen as a long-shot bidder, given that it is much smaller than Microsoft and would have a harder time paying for the deal—and the software […]

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