article thumbnail

Microsoft receives $29B IRS tax notices for decade-old transactions

CIO

billion, plus penalties and interest for the period between 2004 and 2013. “As The Notices of Proposed Adjustment were received on September 26, related to intercompany pricing or transfer pricing, Microsoft said in a regulatory filing. The IRS is seeking an additional tax payment of $28.9

Company 334
article thumbnail

Barbara Liskov Biography

The Crazy Programmer

from Stanford University Notable Positions NEC Professor of Software Science and Engineering, Ford Professor of Engineering, MIT Institute Professor Key Contributions Liskov Substitution Principle, Venus Operating System Notable Awards Discover Magazine’s 50 Most Important Women in Science, IEEE John von Neumann Medal (2004), A.M.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Microsoft faces new antitrust complaint over cloud software licensing in Europe

CIO

In 2004 the company paid a $611 million fine after the Commission found it guilty of illegally bundling media player software with Windows XP (launched in 2001), and then $357 million in 2006 and another $1.3 billion in 2008 for failing to comply with the 2004 ruling.

Cloud 246
article thumbnail

Research: Can a More Detailed LinkedIn Profile Boost Your Salary?

Harvard Business Review

To measure the effects of digital presence on compensation, they analyzed a sample of 1,741 executives who changed jobs between 2004 and 2011. In this article, the authors explain how the intentional management of our online personas can have a positive and measurable connection to pay.

Research 115
article thumbnail

IDC Foundry India CIO Summit 2024: How CIOs Are Transitioning into the AI Era

CIO

The highlight session promises to be rendered by contemporary artist and cyborg activist Neil Harbisson, who has brought man and machine together in himself since getting an antenna implanted in his skull in 2004.

article thumbnail

Niklaus Wirth Biography

The Crazy Programmer

He was made a fellow of the Computer history museum in the year 2004. He was associated with developing international standards in programming and informatics as a member of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) on algorithm language and calculi which support the programming languages ALGOL 60 and ALGOL 68.

Education 162
article thumbnail

Bliki: DiffDebugging

Martin Fowler

Revisions I originally posted this page on 2004-06-01. Such is the value of committing extremely frequently, even if they are so small that I feel its best to squash them for the long-term history. Some IDEs make this easier by keeping a local history automatically that is finer-grained than the commits to version control.