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Larry Ellison (ORACLE)

Lawrence Joseph "Larry" Ellison is an American business magnate, co-founder and chief executive of Oracle Corporation, one of the world's leading enterprise software companies. Wikipedia

Born: August 17, 1944 (age 68), Manhattan Full name: Lawrence Joseph Ellison Spouse: Melanie Craft (m. 2003–2010), Barbara Broothe (m. 1983–1986), More Children: David Ellison, Megan Ellison Education: University of Chicago (1964 – 1966), More Books: Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle Timothy D. Cook(APPLE) Timothy D. "Tim" Cook is the CEO of Apple Inc. Cook joined Apple in March 1998 as SVP of Worldwide Operations and also served as EVP of Worldwide Sales and Operations and was COO until he was named the ... Wikipedia Born: November 1, 1960 (age 52), Robertsdale Education: Duke University (1988), Auburn University (1982), Fuqua School of Business Larry Page(GOOGLE) Lawrence "Larry" Page is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur who, with Sergey Brin, is best known as the co-founder of Google. On April 4, 2011, he took on the role of chief executive officer of Google, replacing Eric Schmidt. Wikipedia Born: March 26, 1973 (age 39), Lansing Spouse: Lucinda Southworth (m. 2007) Education: East Lansing High School (1987 – 1991), More Siblings: Carl Victor Page, Jr. Parents: Carl Victor Page, Gloria Page Awards: Marconi Prize, TR100 S.D.Shibulal(INFOSYS) S.D. Shibulal, better known as Shibulal, is an Indian business executive. He is the Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Infosys, and one of its seven founding members. Wikipedia Born: 1955, Kerala Education: Boston University, University of Kerala Virginia M. Rometty(IBM) Virginia Marie "Ginni" Rometty is an American business executive. She is the current Chairman and CEO of IBM, and the first woman to head the company. Wikipedia Born: 1958, United States of America Education: Northwestern University N.Chandrasekaran(TCS) Natarajan Chandrasekaran, or N. Chandra, is an Indian business executive who is currently the CEO and managing director of Tata Consultancy Services. Chandra took over CEO on October 6, 2009. Wikipedia Born: 1963, Mohanur Education: Coimbatore Institute of Technology,NIT Trichy Jeffrey P. Bezos(AMAZON) Jeffrey Preston "Jeff" Bezos is an American entrepreneur who played a key role in the growth of e-commerce as the founder and CEO of Amazon.com, Inc., an online merchant of books and later of a wide variety of products. Wikipedia Born: January 12, 1964 (age 48), Albuquerque Nationality: American Spouse: Mackenzie Bezos Education: Princeton University (1986), River Oaks Elementary School, Miami Palmetto High School Parents: Miguel Bezos, Ted Jorgensen, Jacklyn Bezos

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TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Accenture to use Nasscom's NAC-Tech test for entry-level hiring

In a move to filter the 'quality' of engineering graduates hired, software majors TCS, Infosys, Wipro, Accenture, Cognizant and HCL have agreed to use the NAC-Tech test or the NASSCOM assessment for competence in technology test.

According to ET Now, this test will serve as a pre-requisite for entry level hiring in the technology sector. Industry body NASSCOM has been pushing for the adoption of this initiative. This has been done in light of the fact that huge retraining costs are incurred by the IT companies.

The scores of this test will be calibrated with the internal test that these companies will conduct for all the engineering students. The additional filtering mechanism will improve the quality of intake, NASSCOM hopes.

The placement season for engineering students will start in the month of September. With this important development, it needs to be seen whether IT companies will hire in large numbers that they usually do.

Notwithstanding the economic uncertainty, fresher recruitment and salary levels saw an upward trend in the IT and ITeS sector during the January-March quarter of 2012 compared to other sectors in the same period, a survey showed.

The survey findings reveal that IT and ITeS Sector had recruited 24 per cent freshers in the last quarter of FY'12 of their total hiring, a surge of 9 per cent from the year-ago period.

Besides, salary level in campus placements was up by 8 per cent in IT and ITeS.

Overall, recruitment index has risen by 11 per cent in January-March quarter to 24 per cent.

Among the nine industries surveyed, infrastructure sector recruited 21 per cent freshers, followed by engineering and manufacturing and automobile sector (18 per cent), retail (16 per cent) and FMCG (14 per cent).

"The fresher's hiring trend this year looks upbeat with IT majors recruiting more compared to last year. The fresher's recruitment market had seen growth in terms of number of hiring and salary," said Rajesh Kumar, CEO, MyHiringClub, which conducted the survey.

In terms of geography, Bangalore, hub of IT and ITeS companies witnessed a maximum fresher recruitment of 24 per cent followed by Delhi-NCR (21 per cent), Chennai (18 per cent), Mumbai (15 per cent), Hyderabad (13 per cent) and Kolkata (10 per cent). 

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Redline Smalltalk aims to bring Smalltalk to the JVM

A project to bring Smalltalk to the JVM is seeking donations to help fund development of its 1.0 release.

Redline Smalltalk is the pet project of James Ladd, who has been developing it since October 2010. However, he has launched a crowdfunding campaign for $20,000 in order to allow him to develop a 1.0 release.

Smalltalk is a cult programming language known for its dynamic and self reflective nature. Despite existing since the early 1970s, Smalltalk has never reached mass adoption, but still maintains a keen following of hardcore fans. Ladd writes in his pitch: “[I] still haven’t found a language more expressive, beautiful, or productive than Smalltalk”.

The project aims to utilise the universal nature of the JVM to allow Smalltalk to become easier to deploy and “help reinvigorate the [Smalltalk] community”. It isn’t the first language to attempt to bring Smalltalk to the ubiquitous platform: earlier this month, Oracle announced that Smalltalk-inspired language Magik would be coming to the JVM.

Ladd describes the new language as “mostly complete” but is asking the community for $20,000 to fund full-time development on a 1.0 release for four to six months. The donation drive, hosted on Kickstarter competitor Indiegogo, has got off to a great start: at the time of writing, it has reached almost one-quarter of its goal with 95 days remaining.

Elliot Bentley

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James Gosling Mastermind of Java

“I do most of my engineering on my PowerBook,” James Gosling states flatly. “I find it dramatically more efficient than a desktop system because, on one hand, it has all the power of a full-blown UNIX desktop. On the other hand, I can take it with me because it has all of the laptop stuff. I can work on a airplane, at home, in a corner when I’m sitting in a boring meeting. And it’s able to do not just email and browsing, it’s got fully-functional, high-end software development tools.”

Bringing the Internet to Life

Dressed in blue jeans, Birkenstocks and a t-shirt, Gosling could easily be mistaken for your typical card-carrying geek. Even Gosling’s desk, spattered with bits of paper and a pile of toys, is characteristically geekish.
But James Gosling is an alpha geek. The mastermind behind Java, he created the programming language that brought the Internet to life and can be found in everything from smartcards to cell phones. And today, as a fellow and vice president of Sun Microsystems, he travels the world giving speeches, evangelizing Java and writing software on his PowerBook.
“Mac OS X on a Mac,” he says, “is very much a UNIX machine, so it’s got all the creature comforts. People who have been in the UNIX/BSD community for years have gotten used to all kinds of little utilities — such as the ability to write command line scripts and drive it at a fairly low level. All of these deep tools are just there. And they just work.”

“People in the UNIX/BSD community have gotten used to all kinds of little utilities. All of these deep tools are just there. And they just work.”

Semantic Modeling

These days, Gosling spends most of his time working with his research team at Sun to create a high-end tool that does semantic modeling for software developers. Designed to deal with today’s massively complex systems, semantic modeling gives developers sophisticated ways to analyze the structure of an application.
Developers, Gosling says, “love developing on UNIX platforms because they’re rock solid. They have all the right security properties. But the reality is that developers need a volume deployment platform. And one of the nice things for Java development on Macs is that developers can build things for the platform that they love. But if you write Java programs, you can also deploy on Windows or big server boxes. You aren’t forced by your user community to just slavishly do the PC thing.”
Gosling and his development team, he says, “almost all have PowerBooks. It’s amazing how many of them are showing up these days. They’ve been really popular at work. A certain amount of their appeal is little things. I do a lot of public speaking and the PowerBook automatically does the right stuff when I plug it into a projector. Also the PowerBook is the first machine that I’ve seen where the lid mechanism on the laptop actually works. You can close the lid and open it again and it’s still running. Seems like a small thing, but it truly works.”

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