College Coders to Compete in Tokyo at IBM-Sponsored ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest
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The most promising young innovators studying information technology (IT) from around the globe will gather on March 12-16, 2007 in Tokyo for the 31st annual World Finals of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), sponsored by IBM.
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Editors: Shlomo Reifman and Samantha N. Wong Researchers: Joshua Brandt, Fei Mei Chan,  Andrew T. Gillies, Soo Jeong, Edward Knudsen,  Artie Kwok, John Ray and Jody Yen Programmer: Carl Subick
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A fundamental change in the design of microprocessors is presenting software developers with a challenge &#151; and a huge financial opportunity.
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Frances Allen, an IBM computer science veteran, to be honored by ACM for her work on program optimization and Ptran.
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The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has awarded the A.M. Turing Award to Frances Allen, a computer scientist at IBM and the first woman to receive the prestigious prize.
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Students at North Carolina State University are learning to build business applications in the Web 2.0 mold using&#160;an IBM incubator project called Project Zero.Announced last year, Project Zero is a programming framework for rapidly building Web applications. Its pieces include a scripting runtime for Groovy and PHP (hypertext preprocessor), two hot dynamic languages, along with APIs (application programming interfaces) for creating REST (representational state transfer) Web services, user interfaces, and mashups, according to IBM. It is available as a plug-in for the Eclipse integrated development environment, as well as in a version for developers who prefer to work from the command line.However, the project has faced some criticism, because although its community-driven model echoes open source, it is not an open-source project. Mark Hanny, vice president of strategic partnerships at IBM, said a commercial version of Project Zero could surface soon.James Governor, an analyst with Redmonk, suggested it makes sense for IBM to embrace newer development methods in its work with schools.&quot;IBM doesn&#39;t want to be your father&#39;s IBM, it wants to be your son&#39;s,&quot; he said.There is significant demand in the job market for such skills, according to IBM. Citing statistics from Skillproof, a research firm in Connecticut, IBM said the number of U.S. job openings for IT professionals grew 45.2 percent between 2004 and the end of last year. Knowledge of open standards and Web 2.0 development skills were in particularly high demand, according to IBM.NCSU Professor Munindar Singh said Project Zero&#39;s rapid development framework has helped students focus on higher-level issues around application development, rather than trudge at length through the deep weeds.His students generally enter the courses having learned some Java, created Web pages and done some scripting, but usually lack experience at the plumbing level, the professor said.&quot;Spending a lot of time just trying to configure an application server to do stuff for them is such a waste of time,&quot; he said. &quot;That&#39;s something the tool should be doing for them. ... The higher up they are in the food chain, the more creative they&#39;re going to be.&quot;According to Hanny, the IT world&#39;s needs are changing.&quot;Professors are spending a lot more time helping people at a higher level to be the architect, to be the project managers,&quot; he said. &quot;These are the jobs that are in great demand.&quot;&quot;IT is much broader. It&#39;s pervasive,&quot; he added. &quot;Some of the training is not even going on in computer science; some of it is going on in business schools.&quot;Meanwhile, IBM and the University of California-Los Angeles previously created a program within one computer science course that sees students choose their own Web 2.0 project and then work with IBM mentors to complete it.Jeffrey Tan, a UCLA senior from Palo Alto, California, built a mashup called Bounce along with two classmates. It leveraged the Facebook API along with listings from the Eventful event aggregator and maps from Google Maps. Tan&#39;s contributions focused on the application&#39;s front end.IBM officials served more as sounding boards than as direct teachers, he said. For example, the students would write a specification document for a Web site and send it to technical staffers at IBM, who would provide advice and feedback, such as what APIs to use, he said.Tan hopes to find a career building Web sites and &quot;managing back-end, server-side stuff.&quot;&quot;I just interviewed for a job, and almost all I talked about are these major Web 2.0 technologies,&quot; he said. &quot;Basically, Web 2.0 is replacing the old Web.&quot;&#160;
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IBM Rational on Wednesday plans to flesh out complete plans for the upcoming IBM Software Development Platform, code-named âAtlantic.â
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Global software makers are looking to China as a new center for research efforts, seeking to take advantage of cheap programming talent despite nagging intellectual property concerns.
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BANGALORE, INDIA -- IBM Corp. has partnered with a computing and an educational institution in India to promote the development of open-source software in the region, the company said Thursday.
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Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing (Nasdaq:CHRT)(SGX-ST:Chartered),  one of the world's top dedicated foundries,  today announced the extension of its joint development efforts with IBM  to include 32-nanometer (nm) bulk complementary metal oxide  semiconductor (CMOS) technology.
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(InfoWorld) - The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) has awarded the A.M. Turing Award to Frances Allen, a computer scientist at IBM and the first woman to receive the prestigious prize. Allen, a fellow emerita at IBM's T.J. Watson Research Center, was given the award for her contributions in the area of program optimization, a way of modifying a program to run more efficiently and improve performance. The award is named after the British mathematician A.M. Turing and includes a $100,000 prize. In particular, ACM cited Allen's work in automatic program parallelization, which allows programs to use multiple processors to improve speed. The group said her efforts "contributed to advances in the use of high performance computers for solving problems such as weather forecasting, DNA matching, and national security functions." The group will present the award to Allen at a ceremony in June.
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Cdodewalkers.com has announced their latest PHP Coding Contest...
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Could computer game-inspired lesson plans help attract students to college computer science courses? Two researchers got a $147,000 National Science Foundation grant to find out.
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Ultimately, a Visual Studio package will compete with products from IBM's Rational unit. Coders will get a peek next month.
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Well, this is some news I've been wanting to share for a while, but I've had to wait until everything was ready.  During the summer, I spoke at RubyConf*MI, one of the first regional Ruby Conferences (I think San Diego held the only one earlier than the Michigan folks).  At the time, they filmed all the presentations.
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zNextGen, an organization aimed at young mainframe programmers, has gained significant momentum since it was created roughly two years ago through IBM and its user group, SHARE, according to its leaders.&quot;We started out ... [with an informal gathering] in a bar with 30 or 40 people there, and we now have over 350 members from over 100 different enterprise systems companies in 12 countries,&quot; said Kristine Harper, zNextGen&#39;s project manager and an assembler programmer at Neon Enterprise Software in Sugar Land, Texas.As a young woman in her 20s, the University of Arizona 2005 graduate doesn&#39;t fit the archetypal mold of a Big Iron lifer. But she entered that world at birth: Her parents have both worked as mainframe programmers.&quot;Basically, I&#39;m a nerd at heart to begin with. It definitely takes a certain kind of personality to work on mainframes,&quot; she said, adding, &quot;It&#39;s in my blood, and I got an early start. I pretty much was not exposed to all the stigmas around mainframes.&quot;Harper said the raw power a mainframe possesses holds far more interest for her than Web programming, for example. &quot;You get to learn something new every day ... it&#39;s really nice to know I&#39;m in a career where I can walk into work and never say I know everything.&quot;Justin Bastin, 27, another zNextGen member, studied computer science in college but wasn&#39;t lying awake at night, dreaming of a life at the helm of a System z. &quot;I knew I wanted to go into IT, but what platform, I didn&#39;t know.&quot;After putting out resumes for a while, he heard from a professor that Sherwin-Williams was looking for a mainframe programmer and eventually landed the job.&quot;You really are always learning something new,&quot; he said in agreement with Harper. Bastin added that the stakes are also high with a mainframe -- the proverbial beating heart of a company&#39;s IT infrastructure.&quot;If you have a problem with the mainframe, it&#39;s not as simple as you just reboot. You cannot reboot in the middle of the week. Once you figure that problem out, it&#39;s very rewarding,&quot; he said.IBM, of course, is interested in preserving its lucrative System z business -- something that would prove difficult if the supply of new programmers dries up.&quot;Bringing new people to the platform is a big part of the mission ... keeping the skills pipeline full is important to IBM,&quot; said Michael Todd, an IBM Academic Initiative System z adviser who works with the group. &quot;It&#39;s been a concern for a few years, and we heard that from our customers.&quot;There are a number of zNextGen-related tracks planned for SHARE&#39;s conference in Orlando, Florida, in February.IBM, SHARE, and zNextGen are also rolling out a new recruitment tactic -- a document containing photos and profiles of zNextGen members, which will be distributed to university students.Its contents are telling of the need zNextGen is trying to fill: There are plenty of twentysomethings featured, but a fair number of older people as well -- veteran mainframers who help foster the program.Harper, for one, does not seem daunted. &quot;I&#39;m definitely very happy and pleased by the growth of our group. It&#39;s grown significantly but not so fast that we can&#39;t handle the growth rate,&quot; she said.
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By Anita Clark, The Wisconsin State Journal  Mar. 10--Three computer whizzes from UW-Madison are headed to Tokyo this weekend to pit their brains -- and endurance -- against competitors from around the world.