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The major swap | Culture
3+ day, 46+ min ago (798+ words) Picking a university program can feel like you’re deciding your whole life. High school was an endless array of open doors. Like Barbie, you could be anything: a lawyer, an artist, a journalist, a scientist — even prime minister. But once…...
'Boundaries of Freedom' project features Nov. 4 symposium, website
3+ week, 3+ day ago (106+ words) The Latrobe Bulletin Corey Clay, a junior computer science major from Florida, works on research during a recent trip to the Westmoreland Historical Society. Corey Clay, a junior computer science major from Florida, examines an old newspaper on microfilm alongside…...
In memory of Professor Anthony “Tony” Hunter
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (683+ words) UCL Computer Science remembers Professor Tony Hunter, a distinguished artificial intelligence researcher, dedicated educator and much-loved colleague, who has died aged 64. It is with deep sadness that we record the death of Professor Anthony “Tony” Hunter, Professor of Artificial Intelligence…...
Ferranti Mark I: the computer that made computing real
2+ mon, 4+ day ago (556+ words) It’s hard to imagine a time when computers were a strange concept, but that’s exactly what they were in the 1940s – theoretical machines striving towards the idea of a “universal computing machine”. There were many teams individually working towards this goal:…...
Two-ton EDSAC - the first electronic computer to go into general use - celebrated with Blue Plaque at University of Cambridge
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (720+ words) It weighed two tons, took up an entire room and contributed to three Nobel Prizes. The Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator, or EDSAC, marked the birth of everyday computing and its role has been celebrated with the unveiling of a…...
Plaque awarded for pioneering computer creation
2+ mon, 2+ week ago (330+ words) A blue plaque has been unveiled marking the creation of a computer in 1949 which set the standards for how today's computers are still used. The Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator – better known as Edsac - was the first computer built at…...
Superglue Changed Medicine and Junk Drawers Across America
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (147+ words) What do you do with a superglue that instantly sticks to everything? On October 29, 1969, Stanford programmer Bill Duvall sent a single-word message—"login"—to UCLA student programmer Charley Kline, 350 miles away. Transmitted between two computers that each filled an entire…...
Rhode Island Computer Museum Celebrates New Location In North Kingstown
3+ mon, 4+ day ago (184+ words) NORTH KINGSTOWN, RI — The Rhode Island Computer Museum celebrated its new location Monday. The occasion was marked with a ribbon-cutting. "It's ribbon cutting time!" the North Kingstown Chamber of Commerce said in a social media post. "We are so thrilled…...
How Frances Allen went from dairy farm girl to the first woman to win computing’s ‘Nobel Prize’
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (1013+ words) Frances Elizabeth Allen (1932–2020) was an American computer scientist whose pioneering work on compiler technology helped shape modern computing by enabling programming code to be translated into machine-readable instructions. In 2006, she made history as the first female recipient of the Turing…...
Megalibraries [IMAGE] | EurekAlert! Science News Releases
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (44+ words) Megalibraries (IMAGE) EurekAlert! Using Second Harmonic Generation Microscopy to map megalibraries of nanoparticles swiftly reveals the location of piezoelectric, optically active non-centrosymmetric perovskites in complex materials spaces. More on this News Release Megalibraries in pole position for autonomous discovery over…...