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Chuchu Fan Receives 2020 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award
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Chuchu Fan Receives 2020 ACM Doctoral Dissertation Award

Chuchu Fan, an assistant professor at MIT who received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, is the recipient of the 2020 ACM Doctoral...

Developers Are Moving From Java 8 to Java 11
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Developers Are Moving From Java 8 to Java 11

More developers are using Java 11 than Java 8 in production, according to the JVM Ecosystem Report 2021, marking a shift from earlier surveys which showed developers...

83% of Developers Suffer From Burnout, Study Finds
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83% of Developers Suffer From Burnout, Study Finds

Eighty-three percent of software developers suffer from workplace burnout, according to a study from Haystack Analytics.

Old Programming Languages Still Critical, But Nobody Wants to Learn Them
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Old Programming Languages Still Critical, But Nobody Wants to Learn Them

Large organizations that rely on aging IT systems and programming languages face an urgent skills shortage as older developers retire — and take their expertise...

NASA Is Using Data Science to Fill Its Data Science Skills Gap
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NASA Is Using Data Science to Fill Its Data Science Skills Gap

NASA is creating a workforce talent-mapping database to identify the data skills that exist and are required for all kinds of projects within the space agency. ...

Developers Are Exhausted; Managers Are Worried They'll Quit
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Developers Are Exhausted; Managers Are Worried They'll Quit

Businesses are worried about the well-being of their software development teams in the face of skills shortages, growing demand for smart technologies, and ongoing...

Algorithms Are the Boss for Many at Amazon
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Algorithms Are the Boss for Many at Amazon

At Amazon, machines are often the boss—hiring, rating, and firing millions of people with little or no human oversight.

Computers Design Precise Genetic Programs
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Computers Design Precise Genetic Programs

Researchers have developed a way to build genetic circuits using high-performing genetic parts and predictive computational models.

Is Programming Theory A Waste of Time?
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Is Programming Theory A Waste of Time?

How important is programming theory given that coding jobs are becoming increasingly platform-based? It's a divisive question within the developer community.

Obtain a Ph.D. and a Career in Data
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Obtain a Ph.D. and a Career in Data

Innovative new approaches to learning are enabling people to gain skills that are vital in today's workplace.

Commercial Video Games Could Help Treat Mental Illness, Research Shows
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Commercial Video Games Could Help Treat Mental Illness, Research Shows

Popular video games have the potential to provide low-cost, easy access, effective, and stigma-free support for some mental health issues, according to researchers...

AI Could Spot Wildfires Faster Than Humans
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AI Could Spot Wildfires Faster Than Humans

Since May 1, artificial intelligence software has been sifting through the images of 21 tower-mounted cameras in Sonoma County, Calif., and alerting a fire emergency...

How Software Is Eating the Car
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How Software Is Eating the Car

The trend toward self-driving and electric vehicles will add hundreds of millions of lines of code to cars.

Web Inventor Berners-Lee to Auction Source Code As An NFT
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Web Inventor Berners-Lee to Auction Source Code As An NFT

British computer scientist, inventor, and ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient Sir Tim Berners-Lee is auctioning the original code for the world wide web as a non-fungible...

Open-Source Tool Helps Design Faster, Energy Efficient Computers
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Open-Source Tool Helps Design Faster, Energy Efficient Computers

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory developed the OpenCGRA tool to accelerate the design of coarse-grained reconfigurable array (CGRA) chip architectures...

Microsoft Adapts OpenAI's GPT-3 to Automatically Write Code
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Microsoft Adapts OpenAI's GPT-3 to Automatically Write Code

Microsoft unveiled new tools for automatically generating computer code and formulas, in a new adaptation of GPT-3 natural-language technology.

Columbia Team Builds Hacker-Resistant Cloud Software System
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Columbia Team Builds Hacker-Resistant Cloud Software System

Columbia University researchers have developed a system that guarantees — through a mathematical proof — the security of virtual machines in the cloud.

Numerical Method Makes Simulating Landslide Tsunamis Possible
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Numerical Method Makes Simulating Landslide Tsunamis Possible

Researchers from Tohoku University have developed a numerical method that paves the way for simulating landslide tsunamis.

Python Creator Wants to Make the Language Twice As Fast
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Python Creator Wants to Make the Language Twice As Fast

Guido van Rossum, who created popular programming language Python 30 years ago, has outlined plans to make it twice as fast, addressing a key weakness compared...

Feedback Algorithm Boosts Design of Magnonic Devices
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Feedback Algorithm Boosts Design of Magnonic Devices

Researchers at the University of Vienna and the University of Kaiserslautern have developed a method to accelerate the design of magnonic devices using a feedback...
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