News tagged with programming languages

Judge hands Google victory in Oracle copyright fight

A federal judge on Thursday put a stake in the heart of Oracle's big-money lawsuit against Google by ruling that the application programming interfaces (APIs) at issue can't be copyrighted.

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created Jun 01, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Google cleared in Oracle suit on patents (Update)

Google won a major victory Wednesday as jurors sided with the Internet giant in a high-stakes court battle over patents with business software titan Oracle.

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created May 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 6

New mathematical framework formalizes oddball programming techniques

Two years ago, Martin Rinard's group at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory proposed a surprisingly simple way to make some computer procedures more efficient: Just skip a bunch of ...

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created May 23, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (20) | comments 16 | with audio podcast

Google wants Oracle copyright trial rematch

Google on Wednesday confirmed that it wants a new trial on the copyright portion of a legal battle being fought with Oracle in San Francisco federal court.

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created May 09, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 2

Excel programming for nonprogrammers

Microsoft’s Visual Basic programming language lets Excel users customize their spreadsheets in all kinds of time-saving ways, but few people take advantage of it. Although designed to be intuitive and ...

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created May 08, 2012 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (16) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Google violated copyright, but no damages: jury

A jury ruled Monday that Google violated copyrights owned by Oracle Corp. for the Android mobile platform, but failed to agree on whether damages should be awarded in the high-profile trial.

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created May 07, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 3

Settlement talks fail in Google vs. Oracle patent case

A federal judge in the heart of Silicon Valley said Monday that Google and Oracle have failed to settle a patent dispute out of court and that the case will head to civil trial.

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Oracle, Google gird for trial on Android dispute

Oracle and Google are digging in their heels as they prepare for an upcoming trial.

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created Mar 29, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Computer scientists collect computing tools for next-generation machines

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers using the OLCF's resources can foresee substantial changes in their scientific application code development in the near future.

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created Feb 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Programming language can't be copyrighted: EU court

A computer programming language cannot be protected by copyright, the adviser to the EU's top court said on Tuesday in an opinion that could affect the competitive IT industry.

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created Nov 29, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (20) | comments 22

New programming language to plug information leaks in software

The current method for preventing users and unauthorised individuals from obtaining information to which they should not have access in data programs is often to have code reviewers check the code manually, looking for potential ...

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created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Artificial Intelligence pioneer John McCarthy dies

John McCarthy, a pioneer of artificial intelligence, has died at the age of 84, the Stanford School of Engineering announced.

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created Oct 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 6

Dennis Ritchie, computer-programming pioneer, dies

(AP) -- Dennis Ritchie, a pioneer in computer programming, has died at age 70, according to his longtime employer.

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created Oct 13, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Google Dart debut sparks chatter of JavaScript coup

(PhysOrg.com) -- When the news appeared earlier this week that Google was unveiling a new programming language, Dart, for developers. tech blogs ignited with talk of how Google is staging a JavaScript coup. ...

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created Oct 12, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast report

An oracle for object-oriented programmers

In the last 40 years, the major innovation in software engineering has been the development of what are called object-oriented programming languages. “Objects” are, effectively, repositories for ...

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created Oct 07, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 29 | with audio podcast