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May her contributions never be forgotten, especially around times like these...

Rest in peace.

#programming #computerscience #softwareengineering #mastodon #nasa

John Hopcroft was born OTD in 1939 https://cromwell-intl.com/open-source/performance-tuning/?s=mb #ComputerScience #history

Vale Margaret Hamilton.
She was a Software Engineer.
She was the _first_ Software Engineer because she defined the term, Software Engineering:
"When I first came up with the term, no one had heard of it before, at least in our world. It was an ongoing joke for a long time. They liked to kid me about my radical ideas. It was a memorable day when one of the most respected hardware gurus explained to everyone in a meeting that he agreed with me that the process of building software should also be considered an engineering discipline, just like with hardware. Not because of his acceptance of the new 'term' per se, but because we had earned his and the acceptance of the others in the room as being in an engineering field in its own right."

Margaret Hamilton led the Software Engineering team at MIT that created the software that ran NASA's Apollo Guidance Computer. The photo of her standing next to a stack of source code printouts — that's her work, and she was essential to NASA's mission of landing people on the Moon for the first time ever and getting them back to Earth again safely.

Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90
https://news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton-computing-pioneer-dies-1007

#MargaretHamilton #SoftwareEngineer #SoftwareEngineering #ComputerScience #NASA #MIT #Apollo #MoonLanding

Oh, cool, OpenAI's AI proved that every regular language has generalized star height (gsh) <= 3.

I remember this problem from my time as a computer science student. The bigger open question was, whether there is even any regular language L with gsh(L) > 1 or if all regular languages have gsh(L)<=1.

Any CS student can understand this problem, if you know what regular languages and regular expressions are. It's easy to understand, but hard to solve.

https://github.com/openai/math

link to preprint:
https://github.com/openai/math/tree/main/preprints/Generalized-Star-Height-at-Most-Three-September-25-2026

#theoreticalcomputerscience #formallanguages #computerscience
#tcs #cs #math

🤓 Oh, joy! Another groundbreaking revelation about subquadratic 3SUM and subcubic APSP—because who doesn't love getting lost in dense jungles of sparse lopsided graphs?! 🎉 Dive into this riveting read, but spoiler alert: you'll probably emerge with more triangles than sense. 🛑📚
https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.06783 #subquadratic3SUM #subcubicAPSP #graphtheory #computerScience #dataStructures #mathematics #HackerNews #ngated

Subquadratic 3SUM and Subcubic APSP

https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.06783

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49977437

#HackerNews #Subquadratic #3SUM #Subcubic #APSP #Algorithms #ComputerScience #Research

The article takes us on a thrilling journey through the foggy corridors of '60s computer science, where Alan Kay apparently discovered that #ideas actually come from other ideas. 🤯 Who knew? But fear not, because the most #groundbreaking revelation here is that you can copy this PDF without a fee—as long as you don't make a single penny off it. 💸✨
https://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/ #computerScience #AlanKay #innovation #PDFsharing #HackerNews #ngated

The Early History of Smalltalk

https://worrydream.com/EarlyHistoryOfSmalltalk/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49979845

#HackerNews #Smalltalk #EarlyHistory #Programming #Language #ComputerScience #HistoryOfComputing

https://www.europesays.com/ie/721675/ Can Scientists Build a Lie Detector for AI Chatbots? #AI #chatbots #ComputerScience #Éire #IE #Ireland #KhouryCollegeOfComputerSciences #MachineLearning #Safety #Science

This sums up the entire AI industry in one short dumb story that makes no sense unless you understand how big of a scam #AI is
"softmax is when number go soft. gpu go BRRRRR. 400 gpus go BRRRRRRRRR. hot. water gone. sarah drink it. steve say steve. gary do it on toaster. 7 eat chip. gpu still brrrrr. why. no reason. just brrrrr."
#computers #computerscience #GPU #shortstories

Norway proposes temporary ban on smart glasses amid privacy fears

The push comes amid growing ethical and privacy concerns around the new devices, which have been marketed by technology giants such as Meta.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-10-06/norway-smart-glasses-temporary-ban/107231636

#Technology #Internet #SocialMedia #ComputerScience