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Linus Torvalds Named Recipient of the 2014 IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award

by J.C. DE MARTIN

*Linus Torvalds Named Recipient of the 2014 IEEE Computer Society Computer Pioneer Award* *LOS ALAMITOS, Calif., 23 April 2014 --*Linus Torvalds, the principal force behind development of the Linux kernel and overseer of open source development for the Linux operating system, has been named the 2014 recipient of the IEEE Computer Society's Computer Pioneer Award. Torvalds, a native of Helsinki, Finland, began working on the Linux kernel in 1991. An avid computer programmer, he authored many gaming applications in his early years. He did his early work on an Intel 386 CPU, using Minix, an Unix-inspired operating system created by Andrew Tanenbaum for use as a teaching tool. After Torvalds formed a team of volunteers to work on the Linux kernel, V1.0 was released in the spring of 1994. Torvalds in 1996 joined Transmeta, a California-based startup that was designing an energy-saving central processing unit (CPU). He continued to oversee kernel development for Linux, and in 2003 left Transmeta to focus exclusively on the Linux kernel as a Fellow at The Linux Foundation (known at the time as Open Source Development Labs). Torvalds remains the ultimate authority on what new code is incorporated into the standard Linux kernel. [...] Continua qui: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/pressroom/Linus-Torvalds-Named-Recipient…

May 2, 2014

Pubblicato il rapporto Gov US sui Big Data

by Alessandro Mantelero

Pubblicato l'atteso rapporto Podesta sui Big Data: http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/big_data_privacy_report_… -- Avv. Alessandro Mantelero, PhD Aggregate Professor, Politecnico di Torino Director of Privacy and Faculty Fellow, Nexa Center for Internet and Society Visiting Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute Research Consultant, Sino-Italian Research Center for Internet Torts at Nanjing University of Information Science & Technology Programme Coordinator, Double Degree program in Management and IP Law, Politecnico di Torino–Tongji University of Shanghai http://staff.polito.it/alessandro.mantelero Politecnico di Torino Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24 10129 Torino - Italy in libertate fortitudo

May 1, 2014