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Angel Montesdeoca, IBM: The role of AI in modern software development

Ryan Daws — Fri, 31 May 2024 15:27:03 +0000

In an interview ahead of Digital Transformation Week, Angel Montesdeoca, Program Director of Product Management for watsonx Code Assistant at IBM, discussed the company’s approach to integrating AI into software development tools and accelerating the application lifecycle. The age of generative AI According to Montesdeoca, we are living in “the age of generative AI” with... Read more »

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Microsoft and IBM release MS-DOS 4.00 source code

Ryan Daws — Fri, 26 Apr 2024 12:04:57 +0000

In a celebration of innovation and preserving computing history, Microsoft has released the source code for MS-DOS 4.00 in partnership with IBM. The release – available under the permissive MIT license – includes the operating system’s source code, binary files, and original documentation. The decision to open source MS-DOS 4.00 stems from recent correspondence between... Read more »

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IBM uses generative AI to accelerate mainframe application modernisation

Ryan Daws — Tue, 22 Aug 2023 11:14:04 +0000

IBM has unveiled a generative AI-assisted product to accelerate the modernisation of mainframe applications. ‘Watsonx Code Assistant for Z‘ is the latest addition to the Watson Code Assistant product family. The solution – along with the upcoming IBM watsonx Code Assistant for Red Hat Ansible Lightspeed – is powered by IBM’s watsonx.ai code model. Watsonx.ai... Read more »

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Call for Code 2022 rallies developers to come up with climate change solutions

Ryan Daws — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 13:01:47 +0000

This year’s Call for Code hackathon will focus on climate change and rally developers to come up with innovative solutions to one of humanity’s biggest challenges. Call for Code was created by David Clark Cause in partnership with IBM. Other major partners include the UN Human Rights Office and the Linux Foundation. “Technology is the... Read more »

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IBM brings Python data science platform Anaconda to Linux

Ryan Daws — Tue, 18 May 2021 15:28:00 +0000

IBM is bringing the Python data science platform Anaconda to the company’s LinuxONE and IBM Z customers. Anaconda is the world’s most popular Python distribution platform and boasts over 25 million users worldwide. Today’s announcement is the latest part of IBM’s effort to bring popular data science frameworks and libraries to its enterprise platforms. Barry... Read more »

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Compiler pioneer and first female Turing winner Frances Allen dies aged 88

Ryan Daws — Mon, 10 Aug 2020 10:54:59 +0000

Computer scientist Frances Allen, a pioneer of compiling software and the first female Turing award winner, has died at the age of 88. Allen made vital contributions to compilers – which turn raw code into executable software – along with program optimisation, and parallelisation. She sadly died of Alzheimer’s on her birthday, August 4th. Allen... Read more »

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