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Robert Shelton points out this "debrief" from ESCI LiveCoda 2006, a live programming competition. From the article: "On Wednesday the 24th of May at Loop Bar in Melbourne (Australia) fourteen teams of programmers gathered for the first ESCI LiveCoda real-time programming competition. Possibly the first performance based real-time programming competition. Before a packed night club with live music, each team had just ten minutes to write a program which could correct a corrupted image." (Here's a mirror of the LiveCoda site).

Robert Shelton points out this "debrief" from ESCI LiveCoda 2006, a live programming competition. From the article: "On Wednesday the 24th of May at Loop Bar in Melbourne (Australia) fourteen teams of programmers gathered for the first ESCI LiveCoda real-time programming competition. Possibly the first performance based real-time programming competition. Before a packed night club with live music, each team had just ten minutes to write a program which could correct a corrupted image." (Here's a mirror of the LiveCoda site).

Numen writes "With all the talk of .NET being thrown about there is a common factor occuring through many discussions, namely the claim that .NET will be unable to address functional and logic languages such as Prolog and LISP. To this end I would like to drawn peoples' attention to two resources, that shown how this may well be a non-issue, and to ask, does this change anybodies mind? "

Bob.Smart writes "Microsoft's .NET is clearly explained in this article on the Mercury web site. The input from various important research groups is also interesting."

Bob.Smart writes "Microsoft's .NET is clearly explained in this article on the Mercury web site. The input from various important research groups is also interesting."

Paul Dwerryhouse writes "Infoworld have done a report on the existence of a number of free Java Virtual Machine implementations. Both Kaffe and Japhar have been mentioned. Mind you, I'm always surprised by the way journals describe such products as "weakening Sun's control of Java" - I'd always thought the point of Java was that Sun would make their money by licensing the name and by "providing the best Java environment" - ie, enabling real competition."

Tons of people sent in links to various articles discussing Ronald Rivest's Chaffing and Winnowing technique of 'encryption' that isn't encryption. And it's legally exportable under US laws! Basically the technique multiplexes text from the the actual message with 'other' stuff, and only the intended recipient can sort the mess out. Very interesting. Thanks to Tyson Dowd and Kevin Fu who were the first to send it in.

Tyson Dowd wrote in to tell us about a booklet that Microsoft has written and snail mailed to 2,000 reporters, analysts and experts. It is 28 pages long, and entitled "Competition in the Software Industry". I obviously didn't get a copy, but perhaps one of our readers has seen it- if you know a URL for this document, let me know, I really want to read this thing.