#computerscientist

2025-05-02

The difference between Scientists and Computer Scientists:
#Scientist: "Why does this work?"
#ComputerScientist: "Why doesn't this work?"

2025-04-01

FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado

arstechnica.com/security/2025/

Indiana University quietly removes profile of tenured professor and refuses to say why.

#IndianaU #XiaofengWang #Disappeared #ComputerScientist #TenuredProfessor #USA

2025-03-31

FBI raids home of prominent #ComputerScientist who has gone incommunicado
Indiana #University quietly removes profile of tenured #professor and refuses to say why.
Xiaofeng Wang was the associate dean for research at Indiana University's Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering.
arstechnica.com/security/2025/

David GraylessDavidGrayless
2025-01-24

in 2016, , American artificial intelligence (MIT), died at 88. 🕊️

David GraylessDavidGrayless
2025-01-01

in 1992, , American and US Navy who invented the first compiler for a universal computer programming language and is credited with coining the phrase 'debugging’, died at 85. 🪦

Ele Willoughby, PhDminouette@spore.social
2024-12-09

Bonus #artAdventCalendar: Happy birthday to #mathematician & #computerscientist US Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper (1906-1992) who popularized the revolutionary idea of developing machine-independent programming languages based on English.

She began teaching at Vassar in 31 & got PhD (Yale) in 34. She found marriage & teaching less fulfilling & tried to enlist in the Navy, but was rejected then got a special exemption to volunteer for 🧵1/n

#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #MastoArt

My linocut print of a young Grace Hopper in uniform in dark navy blue with Mark I computer behind here in dark green and grey and the famous moth in dark gold.
Kenneth J. Jaegerkjjaeger@fosstodon.org
2024-12-03

As a #ComputerScientist, many times I wish I were a REAL #scientist.
As a #SoftwareEngineer, many times I wish I were a REAL #engineer.

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬BenjaminHCCarr@hachyderm.io
2024-11-16

How a stubborn #computerscientist accidentally launched the #deeplearning boom
"You’ve taken this idea way too far," a mentor told Prof. Fei-Fei Li, who was creating a new image #dataset that would be far larger than any that had come before: 14 million images, each labeled with one of nearly 22,000 categories. Then in 2012, a team from Univ of Toronto trained a #neura network on #ImageNet, achieving unprecedented performance in image recognition, dubbed #AlexNet.
arstechnica.com/ai/2024/11/how #AI

2024-10-22

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22 ottobre è il Caps Lock Day, la guida definitiva per l'uso del maiuscolo online

Il Caps Lock Day è stato ideato nel 2000 dall’informatico Derek Arnold, stanco di ricevere email scritte interamente in maiuscolo

Translated:
October 22nd is Caps Lock Day, the ultimate guide to using uppercase online.

International Caps Lock Day was created in 2000 by computer scientist Derek Arnold, who was tired of receiving emails written entirely in uppercase.

#DerekArnold #CapsLockDay #computerscientist #CapsLock #guide
rainews.it/articoli/2024/10/22

Steve Dustcircle 🌹dustcircle
2024-09-23

Just How Much Can We Trust . to Predict ?

smithsonianmag.com/science-nat

and Amy McGovern has studied the for two decades, and she weighs in with some answers

2024-09-12

#IreneZhang from #Microsoft #Research: "The Moral Implications of Being a Moderately Successful #ComputerScientist and a #Woman"

"my very existence as a moderately young, moderately successful computer scientist threatens some men's sense of identity, thus making them uncomfortable and/or lash out."

#IT #Researcher #GenderBias #academia #women @academicchatter

sigops.org/2024/the-moral-impl

2024-09-03

Today at work I attended a talk by Zach Weinersmith @smbccomics about #writing pop #science.

He said that a #ComputerScientist told him that the best #writers are the ones who have mastered the "full #stack": words, sentences, paragraphs and chapters. At whatever level of #abstraction you are working, every element should be there for a specific reason.

He also said that if you are #happy all the time as a writer, you are doing it wrong. You need to learn to cry as you delete your own words.

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