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Did OS X Lion Scare Off Apple's OS X Architect Bertrand Serlet?

Apple announced that Bertrand Serlet, Apple’s senior vice president of Mac Software Engineering, will be leaving. Here's what the departure of the architect behind OS X may mean for the future of Steve Jobs's company. READ»

Princeton Researchers Develop a New Way to Map Influence

Using computer algorithms to directly measure how language changes over time -- rather than taking the indirect approach of looking at link or citation rate -- the new method gives another perspective on how influence works.READ»

FlowingData Graphs Your Life Via Twitter

Ever wonder how many cups of coffee you drink, or how many times you log into Facebook this month? Perhaps you’d like to track your caloric intake, and know what times of day it peaks and troughs. There's now an app for that, and all you have to do is Tweet your entire life.READ»

WorldComp '09

Warning: computer overload. The 2009 World Congress in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, and Applied Computing is actually 22 different conferences, drawing 2,500 attendees, all held simultaneously at one location and ...READ»