MIT and U of Southampton launch World Wide Web research

Earlier this week the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has announced a research collaboration, aiming to scientifically study the World Wide Web, hoping to guide the future design to a better network. Under the name of WSRI – Web Science Research Initiative, the project will study scientific, technical, and also social challenges facing the rapidly grows [...]

DWITE 2006 – now with Ruby

A quick, but exciting update on the DWITE programming contest – it now supports Ruby! Running the current stable 1.8.5 version, it should make the contest much more interesting.
Ruby has a very neat syntax, making it easy and enjoyable to write. Code redability is vital, and since DWITE is a team competition, it is important [...]

Source Control (plagirism) in Education

After the publication of source code for a widely popular highschool Computer Science project – Forces (which I wrote about before), the author raises the question of plagiarism of programming assignments.

“Do you think posting source code (especially in turing) is a bad idea because so many people may steal it and claim it as their [...]