Locally correctable codes need barely any information to fix errors, but they’re extremely long. Now we know that the simplest versions can’t get any shorter.
Do you, or have you ever, used a graphical user interface? If you use #Windows, #macOS, or any version of #Linux with a window manager or desktop environment, you can thank Dr. Clarence "Skip" Ellis.
Dr. Ellis worked at Xerox PARC, the research organization that developed the modern GUI. Icons, windows, the mouse, Ethernet-based networking, laser printing - all of these (and more) came out of PARC. Dr. Ellis led the team that created Officetalk, the first program to use icons and the Internet. He got his start at 15 years old showing a local tech company how to reuse punch cards, which was a game-changer back in 1958.
Oh, and he was also the first black man to earn a PhD in Computer Science.
If you are part of the ACM SIGCAS community, we are starting to organize the Works in Progress talks for 2024.
The Works in Progress program is an opportunity for people to share work with the SIGCAS community to raise awareness about important work, receive feedback, or just have a general discussion about the work.
When you're only around smart and open-minded ppl in uni and get back into the internet it sometimes feels like a full-blown cultural shock xD Ik it's the internet... But still sad there's people still thinking like that. #society#politics#computerscience#engineering
How have I managed to miss knowing anything about #AdaLovelace? Come on, I have a newspaper discussing #Tamboro hanging on my wall and Ada is Lord Byron's kid so I should have picked up on her at some point because of Frankenstein right? I am remiss my studies.
I just read this article from Moshe Vardi in the latest issue of CACM and I encourage everyone in computing to read it. As computing researchers and professionals, we have a responsibility to society, and in Moshe's article, I think this about sums up the current state: "we once considered computing as the 'Rebels', but it turns out that computing is the 'Empire'"
Can you see the incredibly simple #ComputerScience 101 #bug in this code? Because I just spent the better part of a Sunday banging my head before figuring it out 🤦♂️
#Programming alone and having full control over your #GameDev codebase is great most of the time, but sometimes you just need a second set of eyes to reveal your blind spots.
I'm now determining if a randomly generated atmosphere is breathable or not c: And I found out that it's very unforgiving... A lot of things have to be right for an atmosphere to be breathable, and there's SO MANY TOXIC GASES (my search history is messed up now). I'll prolly have to make the generator less realistic to favor gameplay :o #python#gaming#gamedev#coding#development#scifi#computerscience
✨Announcing the 2023 #ACMFellows! This year's 68 inductees include the inventor of the World Wide Web, the "godfathers of AI," and other colleagues whose contributions have all been important building blocks in forming the digital society that shapes our modern world.⠀
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Read about their achievements: https://www.acm.org/media-center/2024/january/fellows-2023
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Congratulations to all the Fellows! 🌎 #computerscience#computing#ACM#tech
Back to #Inform#interactiveFiction#textAdventure#coding, and there's something really magical about trying early stages of the game myself as a player, thinking "This is the experience I want the player to have here", then coding it, replaying to try it out myself, tweaking and so on. Like alchemy! Iterative, and it takes time. But it's stupidly fun. I never had this much fun with #programming during my #computerScience degree, when we learned loads of languages and IDEs. #GameDev#IndieGames
The author is craving for an intermediate representation for general-purpose computational machines. A few years later it happened with #WebAssembly. #computerScience#compiler
I was trying to learn what a monad was and ran into that same problem in Wikipedia where they provide so much descriptive info about something, but not why it exists or what it's for. Ugh.
Alright, #computerScience nerds. I'm looking for papers, and hoping some night-owl specializes in this. I'm a glorified plumber, despite decades of experience, and I'm looking for literature specifically on the expression and fast verification of constraints on rooted DAGs (not finding them in the first place, which is what all the work seems to be on).
AnitaB.org, the organization that runs the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing, is having monthly online meetups for Portland, OR.
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I want to make sure you don't miss the opportunity to virtually connect with other AnitaB.org Portland community members on Thursday, 2/8 at 12:00 p.m. PT!
As part of a new monthly series (happening on the second Thursday of each month), we want to invite you to collaborate with others, share ideas and grow your local network. Meet other members, ask questions, and learn how to get more involved in growing the Portland community.