E-ITSPEA - BLOG - Vladislav Švan

James Gosling    James Gosling completed a PhD in computer science and contributed to software innovation. Gosling was born in 1955 near Calgary in Canada. He invented the Java programming language, the first programming language which was able to adapt to highly distributed applications and is designed to work with the Internet. He is the father of the programming language which changed the world forever. He is currently a chief technology officer of Sun Microsystems, which he joined in 1984. In the 90s Gosling founded the Green project, which eventually was renamed to Java. The aim of the software he created was to work on as many platforms and devices as possible without it requiring customization each time. Despite the fact most of the technology developed by Gosling within project Green was never released, he saw some underlying principles would be very handy for the current Internet era. Java was officially launched in 1995. The original design, compiler and...

     As it's been already said: the world of IT software and hardware is quickly developing. Some projects become permanent in our life, others fall and being memorized only in history books.        And here we are to find out about two interesting pieces of " old " IT world. The old, but still worthy: e-mail.        It is hard to believe, but e-mail is already ~55 years old, and we still use it in our everyday life, despite popularity of online messangers such as Viber or WhatsApp.       It is believed that first e-mail letters were sent in 1965, when workers of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (shortly - MIT) wrote program "mail" for operational system CTSS, installed on computer IBM 7090/7094.      Common sense of e-mail is absolutely similar with usual mail: you write someone a letter or packing some small parcel (in e-mail case: pictures, music files, short video, etc) and send it to a...

       The world of IT software and hardware is quickly developing. Some ideas develop into full-fledged projects, others - into monuments of IT history. One of new fascinating fields for IT giants to try their best is "Virtual Reality" or more simple - VR.      And here we are to discuss some interesting VR projects that deserve more attention than they got.   1. OSVR - Razer and Sensics.        OSVR is one of the first VR platforms. Its history begins in 2014 by Razer and Sensics. Main idea of OSVR was in fully open-source system, so that any user of this system could take any different devices (e.g. Xbox Kinect, PS move cameras, etc), put it together, work a bit over the code, and get their own VR platform, supported in many games and game worlds.     Before OSVR Razer did not have any experience in making VR headsets or systems, but Sensics had. Sensics were creating different headset for business owners, NAS...