“The genome-sequencing technique from 454 Life Sciences was selected as the Gold winner in The Wall Street Journal’s 2005 Technology Innovation Awards competition. Innovative technologies from around the world were eligible for awards in categories including biotechnology, software, security, energy and the environment, among others,” Michael Totty reports for The Wall Street Journal. “Judges selected Gold, Silver and Bronze winners, as well as giving out an Honorable Mention award. They also named winners in each of 12 categories and a total of 20 runners-up.”
The winner in the Software category was, “Agitar Software Inc., based in Mountain View, Calif., won here for its Agitator tool, which helps software developers find and fix bugs when writing new programs. Software writers typically have to scour for buggy code by poring over thousands of lines of code — often after flaws show up while users are running the program. Agitator automatically puts software through a battery of stress tests; it also can examine partial programs by simulating the whole software system,” Totty reports. “Though Agitator works only with programs written in the Java programming language, the judges said it is an important advance in making error-free code writing more productive.”
“The Rosetta technology in Apple’s upcoming Intel-based Macintosh computers is based on cutting edge software innovation by another firm. That firm is Transitive. And it’s [sic] QuickTransit software — which lets all software applications run on all computer platforms — was a runner up in this year’s Wall Street Journal’s 2005 Technology Innovator’s Awards,” Architosh reports. “Also a runner up in the same Software category was Macintosh CAD developer, Graphisoft for its 5D Virtual Construction product.”
Full article here.
Full list of “The Wall Street Journal’s Technology Innovation Awards 2005” winners here.
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“…and it’s QuickTransit software…”
dude, go straight back to gradeschool and learn how to use a damn apostrophe.
“it’s” ALWAYS means “it is”.
*grumble*
Someone should send the WSJ writer this link:
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/grammar/g_apost.html
i use an apostrophe to denote the possessive of nouns, too.
“Technology behind Apple’s Rosetta wins Wall Street Journal’s 2005 Technology Award”
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“And it’s QuickTransit software…was a runner up in this year’s Wall Street Journal’s 2005 Technology Innovator’s Awards”
wins?
Don’t ya wish we could edit our posts sometimes in here, Nick? heh
a verbal idiot, and proud of it!!
“it’s” ALWAYS means “it is”.
yes nikki… and the period in the above sentence should appear inside the quotation marks.
you get a grade of “C” for effort.
Furthermore Nikki, shouldn’t “dude” be capitalized since it’s at the beginning of a sentence?
“Technology behind Apple’s Rosetta wins Wall Street Journal’s 2005 Technology Award”
Um…
Okay… and Buzz Aldrin was the first man to walk on the moon – in reality Mr. Aldrin was AMONG the first to walk on the moon, but not THE first.
Technology behind Apple’s Rosetta AMONG THE WINNERS OF THE Wall Street Journal’s 2005 Technology Award.
“The Agitator” <yawns> That’d be “The Monkey” … yeah real innovative.
http://folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story=Monkey_Lives.txt
Apple had this kind of stuff in 1983.
Thanks for the link, Nick. I’ve been looking for an online reference to consult when I need to refresh my memory about rules of grammar. It’s a valuable resource and its content is very complete.
Hmmm… the MDN referral to that URL doesn’t work. The &story=Monkey_Lives.txt part gets hacked off. Anyways… go to folklore.org and search for “monkey”, there’s only one story about it.
yeah… gwm…. um
Nick is right.
You’re wrong (“You’re” not “your” — another example of when the apostrophe is not used to denote possessiveness. “It’s” is the contraction of “it is.” To show possessive form of “it” you spell “its”)
Use your OS X.4 built in dictionary.
just tried your link… it’s get’s a server error
I really like the monkey story.
Just another innovation brought about with the Macintosh =)
Wow, what a coincidence to find my old grade school teacher in here, trolling a Mac internet page!
*shrugs*
“yes nikki… and the period in the above sentence should appear inside the quotation marks.
you get a grade of “C” for effort.”
Actually, it depends on who you ask. Different styleguides and authorities say different things when it comes to that sort of thing. As I recall from what I learned, with quotations the punctuation goes inside, at least according to most American sources, but when using something as an example word/phrase the rule is more flexible.
You also didn’t capitalize “Yes”, “Nikki”, or “You”. So you might want to go back to grammar school, teach.
MDN MW: Response, which was what I just give.
wtf? lern to tork n00bs
Nick wrote:
“Someone should send the WSJ writer this link:”
Come on, give the WSJ a break. I’m a regular reader (for better or worse), and find a surprising number of typos. But that certainly doesn’t make their content less valuable. If I had to make a publication like that meet deadline every day, I’d slip some typos too.
I knew a goil named ‘Rosetta’ once. Or was it Rosita?
The British prefer the period after the quotation mark; the Americans prefer it before. So on that point, teach is being small-minded, as is anyone who assumes that a comment is made (1) by an American, (2) for an American, or (3) in America, and (4) by a native English speaker, who, if educated in America, is no guarantee that they can speak proper English.
On another note, Bush is starting an anti-porn offensive. How about an education offensive instead?