美國通32 The Alabama Chief Justice Tom Parker的 I.V.F. Ruling Shows Our Slide Toward Theocracy (神權政治)。 David Blackwell (1919– 2010) 〈為什麼Nvidia下一代的晶片架構命名為Blackwell？〉(科學祺談)。Kent Beck (born 1961the creator of extreme programming,) met Niklaus Wirth, Visionary Software Architect, Dies at 89 ：Pascal, the programming language he created

The Alabama Chief Justice Who Invoked God in Deciding the Embryo Case

Chief Justice Tom Parker has long been revered by conservative groups as an architect for the overturning of Roe v. Wade.

Alabama’s I.V.F. Ruling Shows Our Slide Toward Theocracy

神權政治

theocracy

/θɪˈɒkrəsi/

noun

1. a system of government in which priests rule in the name of God or a god.

   "his ambition is to lead a worldwide theocracy"

   • the commonwealth of Israel from the time of Moses until the election of Saul as king.

     noun: Theocracy; noun: the Theocracy

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 David Blackwell (1919– 2010) 〈為什麼Nvidia下一代的晶片架構命名為Blackwell？〉(科學祺談)

https://hcpeople.blogspot.com/2024/02/david-blackwell.html

Kent Beck

Wikipedia

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Kent Beck (born 1961) is an American software engineer and the creator of extreme programming, a software development methodology that eschews rigid formal ...

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Kent Beck
Born	1961 (age 62–63)
Citizenship	United States
Alma mater	University of Oregon
Known for	Extreme programming, Software design patterns, JUnit
Scientific career
Fields	Software engineering
Institutions	Gusto

Kent Beck speaking in 2001

Kent Beck (born 1961) is an American software engineer and the creator of extreme programming,^[1] a software development methodology that eschews rigid formal specification for a collaborative and iterative design process. Beck was one of the 17 original signatories of the Agile Manifesto,^[1] the founding document for agile software development. Extreme and Agile methods are closely associated with Test-Driven Development (TDD), of which Beck is perhaps the leading proponent.

Beck pioneered software design patterns, as well as the commercial application of Smalltalk. He wrote the SUnit unit testing framework for Smalltalk, which spawned the xUnit series of frameworks, notably JUnit for Java, which Beck wrote with Erich Gamma. Beck popularized CRC cards with Ward Cunningham, the inventor of the wiki.

He lives in San Francisco, California and previously worked at Facebook.^[2] In 2019, Beck joined Gusto as a software fellow and coach, where he coaches engineering teams as they build out payroll systems for small businesses.^[3]

Niklaus Wirth, Visionary Software Architect, Dies at 89

Pascal, the programming language he created in the early days of personal computing, offered a simpler alternative to other languages in use at the time.

Niklaus Wirth in 1984 with Lilith, one of the world’s first computer workstations to have a high-​resolution graphic display and use a mouse, which Dr. Wirth invented.Credit...Niklaus Wirth, via ETH

By Michael S. Rosenwald

Feb. 22, 2024, 1:13 p.m. ET

In 1999, an up-and-coming software engineer in Switzerland was preparing for a conference in France when he learned that the Swiss computer scientist Niklaus Wirth, a pioneer in the field, was also attending and would be on the same flight.

The engineer, Kent Beck, had never met Dr. Wirth. But, he recalled in an interview, upon arriving at the airport he told the gate agent: “My colleague Professor Wirth and I are flying together. Would it be possible for us to sit together?”

Mr. Beck, who would eventually become a well-known programmer in his own right, said that sitting next to Dr. Wirth and talking shop was comparable to a young singer getting the chance to perform with Taylor Swift. Among other feats in computer history, Dr. Wirth had created Pascal, an influential programming language in the early days of personal computing.