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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...

IBM's Project CodeNet Aimed at Teaching AI to Code
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IBM's Project CodeNet Aimed at Teaching AI to Code

IBM has announced Project CodeNet, a large open-source dataset that aims to help teach AI how to understand and even write code.

Teen's Book Encourages Young Girls to Study Computer Science
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Teen's Book Encourages Young Girls to Study Computer Science

Danielle Park, 15, wrote and self-published her own book on computer science principles and programming aimed at middle and high school students.

There Are More Developers in the World Than Ever Before
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There Are More Developers in the World Than Ever Before

A meteoric rise in the number of active software developers brings the current worldwide total to around 24.3 million, according to 20th edition of SlashData's...

ORNL Licenses AI System to General Motors for Automotive Use
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ORNL Licenses AI System to General Motors for Automotive Use

Oak Ridge National Laboratory has licensed an artificial intelligence software system to General Motors for use in vehicle technology design and development.

Bad Software Sent U.K. Postal Workers to Jail
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Bad Software Sent U.K. Postal Workers to Jail

The convictions of 39 U.K. Post Office employees have been overturned after a court determined their convictions where based on data from a flawed software system...

Discerning Deep Fakes Digitally
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Discerning Deep Fakes Digitally

Researchers have developed a forensic method based on a convolutional neural network that can effectively distinguish between natural images and computer-generated...

Designing Healthy Diets With Computer Analysis
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Designing Healthy Diets With Computer Analysis

A mathematical model for the interaction of bacteria in the gut could help design new probiotics and specially tailored diets to prevent diseases, researchers say...

A Tool for Navigating Complex Computer Instructions
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A Tool for Navigating Complex Computer Instructions

Scientists from MIT CSAIL and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have come up with a tool that automatically generates compiler plugins for new processor...
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