20050407 Thursday April 07, 2005

National Medal of Technology

The recipients of the 2003 National Medal of Technology were recently presented their awards by President Bush at a White House ceremony. The recipients of this prestigious award included:

  • Robert Metcalfe - "For leadership in the invention, standardization, and commercialization of the Ethernet."
  • Watts Humphrey - "For his vision of a discipline for software engineering, for his work toward meeting that vision, and for the resultant impact on the U.S. Government, industry, and academic communities."

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J2EE 5.0 - Early Draft

An Early Draft of the J2EE 5.0 (JSR 244) specification has been published for public review. The primary theme for J2EE 5.0 is "ease of development", a theme in which JSR 175 ("A Metadata Facility for the Java Programming Language") plays a key role. The specification can be downloaded here.
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