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New domain name (joaoff.com)

Monday, February 25, 2008

Some people were complaining about the domain joaoferreira.org, because it was a bit long and they never got the number of r’s in Ferreira right. From today, they can’t complain anymore!
The new and official URL of this website is now shorter and r’s-free: joaoff.com .
If you don’t like it and prefer the old one, [...]

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A reward check from Donald Knuth

Monday, February 25, 2008

The other day I went to my pigeon-hole to collect my snail mail, and I had a letter from Donald E. Knuth, Professor Emeritus of the Art of Computer Programming!

Inside, there was a check for a correction I sent him some months ago. In fact, it was not really a correction; it was more like [...]

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I am still alive!

Friday, June 15, 2007

That’s true: the last post was exactly 5 months ago, but I’m still alive! A lot of new stuff happened during these 5 months. Two days after writing the last post, I went with my group (Foundations of Programming) to a very nice hotel in Ruddington, where, during two days, each member had to present [...]

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On Programming and Mathematical Methodology

Thursday, December 28, 2006

First of all, welcome to my new blog. Being this my first post, I will present myself, give you some background on what I am doing and explain what are my intentions about this blog. My name is João Fernando Ferreira and I am a research student at the Foundations of Programming research group at [...]

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