The computer science problems that earned Craig Gentry his job at IBM sound a bit like Zen koans. Could Google search the Web without knowing what it was looking for? Can an e-mail filter identify spam without reading it? Could an official count votes in an election without opening a ballot?

Looking to focus on the budding -- and game-changing -- HTML 5 specification, the W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) said Thursday it plans to increase available resources for the effort by discontinuing further development of XHTML 2.

Remember the Dig Dug or Centipede or Robotron? They used to be favorites when Atari’s 7800 series was still around. Now since the era of those consoles is over and a different world of interactive reality gaming has taken over, Atari has unofficially released source code of over 15 games for the coders and enthusiasts to admire the state-of-the-art (because this is what it was back then).

This past week Matt and I worked on several new tools to help manage the ever-increasing flood of spam that DZone attracts. I think we achieved a breakthrough on a key issue.

Like the Patriots, who rebelled against Britain's heavy taxes, NoSQLers came to share how they had overthrown the tyranny of slow, expensive relational databases in favor of more efficient and cheaper ways of managing data.

With support from the National Science Foundation, she and collaborators nationwide are using the power of storytelling to draw younger students into programming. An animation program called "Alice," invented by the late Randy Pausch of Carnegie Mellon University, allows student programmers of all ages to create their own worlds without realizing they're actually writing code. Rodger recalled the rush of introducing fourth-to-sixth graders to Alice during an annual event that brings elementary school girls to the Duke campus to meet with female professors. "They learned Alice for half an hour, and then they got to create a world with it," Rodger said. "'Oh, wow, look!' they told each other. 'Come here. Show me. Look at this!' They were creating little stories with Alice, and in the process they were programming. They didn't know they were doing programming, but they were."

The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate release of PHP 5.3.0. This release is a major improvement in the 5.X series, which includes a large number of new features and bug fixes.

Here is a great giveaway, with some of the best O'Reilly books.

On Sunday June 28 2009 the FreeDOS Project will turn 15 years old. For a little trip down memory lane In 1994 I was a physics student at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. Most of my work up to that time had been done using DOS. But then Microsoft announced they were moving off DOS in the next release of Windows which would be Windows 95. So I started an effort to recreate DOS. PD-DOS was announced to the world on June 28 1994. The idea seemed immediately popular and we grew quickly. By July 16 1994 we changed our name to "Free-DOS" and "FreeDOS" in 1996 when Pat Villani published his book about the kernel. Today FreeDOS is used by people all around the world. You can find FreeDOS in many different places: emulators playing old DOS games business ... even bundled with laptops and netbooks: http: technologizer.com 2009 06 23 hps-mini-5101-netbook-deluxe-with-all-the-trimmings How you celebrate the 15 anniversary of FreeDOS is up to you. I d appreciate it if you could help someone install FreeDOS either on a spare PC or in a virtual machine. For myself I ll be going out with friends and raise a glass to the great small OS that is FreeDOS

Major browser vendors have been unable to agree on an encoding format they will support in their products, forcing the W3C to drop audio and video codecs from HTML 5, the forthcoming W3C spec that has been viewed as a threat to Flash, Silverlight, and similar technologies.

Websites should stop masking passwords as users type because it does not improve security and makes websites harder to use, according to two of the technology world's leading thinkers.