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At Aalborg Univeristy we have an open position for a full professorship within #ComputerScience.
Deadline for application is 2026-10-01
Read about the position and apply here:
https://www.vacancies.aau.dk/scientific-positions/show-vacancy/vacancyId/954417 -
At Aalborg Univeristy we have an open position for a full professorship within #ComputerScience.
Deadline for application is 2026-10-01
Read about the position and apply here:
https://www.vacancies.aau.dk/scientific-positions/show-vacancy/vacancyId/954417 -
Finite State Machines in Forth (1994)
https://www.forth.org/literature/noble.html
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49223964
#HackerNews #FiniteStateMachines #Forth #1994 #Programming #ComputerScience #TechHistory
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Finite State Machines in Forth (1994)
https://www.forth.org/literature/noble.html
Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49223964
#HackerNews #FiniteStateMachines #Forth #1994 #Programming #ComputerScience #TechHistory
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Minimalist Edge AI Student Competition: Team Registration Deadline: Sept. 6th, 2026
#ieee-student-members #computer-society #edge-computing #energy #IEEE #GreenAI #EdgeComputing #Qualcomm #SEC2026 #TinyML #ComputerScience #AI #Sustainability #MachineLearning #TechCompetition #scv
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Minimalist Edge AI Student Competition: Team Registration Deadline: Sept. 6th, 2026
#ieee-student-members #computer-society #edge-computing #energy #IEEE #GreenAI #EdgeComputing #Qualcomm #SEC2026 #TinyML #ComputerScience #AI #Sustainability #MachineLearning #TechCompetition #scv
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Volunteers from the Gaza40+ collective are raising funds to help @mahmoudsw (https://gaza-verified.org/people/@mahm[email protected]), an exceptional student from Gaza, cover his living expenses while studying Computer Science at the University of Glasgow.
The UK government has confirmed a route that allows fully funded students from Gaza to begin their studies this academic year.
You can read more and donate here:
https://chuffed.org/project/193798#gaza #uk #palestine #universityofglasgow #donate #gaza40 #gazaverified #computerscience
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Volunteers from the Gaza40+ collective are raising funds to help @mahmoudsw (https://gaza-verified.org/people/@mahm[email protected]), an exceptional student from Gaza, cover his living expenses while studying Computer Science at the University of Glasgow.
The UK government has confirmed a route that allows fully funded students from Gaza to begin their studies this academic year.
You can read more and donate here:
https://chuffed.org/project/193798#gaza #uk #palestine #universityofglasgow #donate #gaza40 #gazaverified #computerscience
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Computer Science lecturers Richard Shipman and Neil Taylor are answering the Clearing phones here in Aberystwyth University. Don’t like the choice you made so far? Come to Aberystwyth instead! Just give us a ring www.aber.ac.uk/en/ #ComputerScience
Mae'r darlithwyr Cyfrifiadureg Richard Shipman a Neil Taylor yn ateb ein ffonau Clirio yma ym Mhrifysgol Aberystwyth. Ddim yn hoffi'r dewis a wnaethoch hyd yn hyn? Dewch i Aberystwyth! Ffoniwch ni. www.aber.ac.uk/cy/ #Cyfrifiadureg
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🆕 blog! “Book Review: Coding Literacy by Annette Vee”
★★⯪☆☆This is a disappointing and frustrating book - not least because it so nearly hits the mark.
The subtitle is "How Computer Programming Is Changing Writing" - but it never gets close to discussing that topic, let alone deeply examining it. Instead, it is a book mostly focussed on the history of …
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/book-review-coding-literacy-by-annette-vee/
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🆕 blog! “Book Review: Coding Literacy by Annette Vee”
★★⯪☆☆This is a disappointing and frustrating book - not least because it so nearly hits the mark.
The subtitle is "How Computer Programming Is Changing Writing" - but it never gets close to discussing that topic, let alone deeply examining it. Instead, it is a book mostly focussed on the history of …
👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/book-review-coding-literacy-by-annette-vee/
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Book Review: Coding Literacy by Annette Vee
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/book-review-coding-literacy-by-annette-vee/This is a disappointing and frustrating book - not least because it so nearly hits the mark.
The subtitle is "How Computer Programming Is Changing Writing" - but it never gets close to discussing that topic, let alone deeply examining it. Instead, it is a book mostly focussed on the history of what we mean by "literacy" and, by contrast, what it meant to be "illiterate".
As per the standard for academic monographs, it is more interested in endlessly discussing the semantics of a term than engaging with its impacts. The historic stuff is genuinely fascinating. But the endless diversions about what Academic A thinks and how Academic B rebuts is a little tedious. There are clear parallels between a pre-literate society relying on the village scribe and the modern family having that one cousin who "knows computers" - but it is only weakly explored.
There are moments when it seems like the author is really going to delve in to what coding literacy actually means:
The relationship between programming as a practice and computer science as a discipline is a central tension in the contemporary programming campaigns that invoke literacy,
But it rarely goes beyond surface level. Most people can write - but only few can write a novel. Many can engage is literary criticism - but few take it any further. How does that model fit on to coding? The book doesn't discuss, but there's an easy parallel there. Only a few people can write an app, but many can use it. Anyone can write a review of an app, but not many can do so from a position of literacy.
This was published in 2017, so written a decade or so before LLMs became seemingly ubiquitous. Nevertheless, there are some historic titbits which seem to fit nicely into today's world:
As early as 1961, Peter Elias claimed that training in programming languages would soon cease because “undergraduates will face the console with such a natural keyboard and such a natural language that there will be little left, if anything, to the teaching of programming. [At this point, we] should hope that it would have disappeared from the curricula of all but a moderate group of specialists.”
But, as the book does briefly discuss, the way the brain is changed by coding literacy forces people to think more in line with a computer. Even if you tell an LLM "build me an app to do xyz", you still need to think about what you're doing, why you're doing it, what edge-cases you need to consider, etc.
But then it is back to the interminable academic squabbling about whether Wittgenstein's definition of an inconsequential term is compatible with Chomsky's.
Perhaps the biggest weakness is that there is almost a complete absence of code! A few examples of BASIC would have done so much to demonstrate how a restricted language set changes how people write and therefore think.
There's a brief exploration about how the typewriter and typesetting changed language and literacy - but where's the examination about how the tyranny of ANSI layout curtailed the way programmers wrote? There's an amazing exploration to be done about why coders use
=>rather than→and how various other symbols got co-opted into their languages.Instead, it is back to the history books again.
Here's another good example about how writing changed literacy:
Written texts provide fewer cues than oral delivery about how to “take” them; for example, ironically, sincerely, or jokingly. Readers must interpret texts, supplying the illocutionary force of the text themselves.
It seems obvious to me that this is directly comparable with something like a code review. It isn't immediately clear what a programmer means when they write something down - and even comments can be misleading. What sort of "oral traditions" are we building up?
The book then mostly abandons any pretence of talking about code. I think the author really wanted to write a history book but needed the (then) coolness of tying it to the various "get kids to code" campaigns.
Towards the end, it almost returns to the topic at hand.
We choose our words in terms of what is potentially reportable on Facebook or Instagram or Twitter
[…]
Although few people know how to program the devices on which code and computation ride into our lives, their manifestations influence us anyhow. In various ways, we have learned to see ourselves as “computed” by the devices and networks on which we depend.
As we might say nowadays "Hey chat! Guess the Cheeto didn't unalive himself today!" - but that isn't really about coding. The people using those substitute words are ignorant of how algorithms really work and think that their clever doublespeak can bypass censorship.
We desperately need more people to be literate in what coding means. Sadly this book only every lightly touches on what coding literacy does to our language, our thoughts, and our society.
I'm giving it 2.5 stars because the history was genuinely interesting - but it completely fails to engage with the topic it promised.
#BookReview #coding #ComputerScience -
Book Review: Coding Literacy by Annette Vee
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/08/book-review-coding-literacy-by-annette-vee/This is a disappointing and frustrating book - not least because it so nearly hits the mark.
The subtitle is "How Computer Programming Is Changing Writing" - but it never gets close to discussing that topic, let alone deeply examining it. Instead, it is a book mostly focussed on the history of what we mean by "literacy" and, by contrast, what it meant to be "illiterate".
As per the standard for academic monographs, it is more interested in endlessly discussing the semantics of a term than engaging with its impacts. The historic stuff is genuinely fascinating. But the endless diversions about what Academic A thinks and how Academic B rebuts is a little tedious. There are clear parallels between a pre-literate society relying on the village scribe and the modern family having that one cousin who "knows computers" - but it is only weakly explored.
There are moments when it seems like the author is really going to delve in to what coding literacy actually means:
The relationship between programming as a practice and computer science as a discipline is a central tension in the contemporary programming campaigns that invoke literacy,
But it rarely goes beyond surface level. Most people can write - but only few can write a novel. Many can engage is literary criticism - but few take it any further. How does that model fit on to coding? The book doesn't discuss, but there's an easy parallel there. Only a few people can write an app, but many can use it. Anyone can write a review of an app, but not many can do so from a position of literacy.
This was published in 2017, so written a decade or so before LLMs became seemingly ubiquitous. Nevertheless, there are some historic titbits which seem to fit nicely into today's world:
As early as 1961, Peter Elias claimed that training in programming languages would soon cease because “undergraduates will face the console with such a natural keyboard and such a natural language that there will be little left, if anything, to the teaching of programming. [At this point, we] should hope that it would have disappeared from the curricula of all but a moderate group of specialists.”
But, as the book does briefly discuss, the way the brain is changed by coding literacy forces people to think more in line with a computer. Even if you tell an LLM "build me an app to do xyz", you still need to think about what you're doing, why you're doing it, what edge-cases you need to consider, etc.
But then it is back to the interminable academic squabbling about whether Wittgenstein's definition of an inconsequential term is compatible with Chomsky's.
Perhaps the biggest weakness is that there is almost a complete absence of code! A few examples of BASIC would have done so much to demonstrate how a restricted language set changes how people write and therefore think.
There's a brief exploration about how the typewriter and typesetting changed language and literacy - but where's the examination about how the tyranny of ANSI layout curtailed the way programmers wrote? There's an amazing exploration to be done about why coders use
=>rather than→and how various other symbols got co-opted into their languages.Instead, it is back to the history books again.
Here's another good example about how writing changed literacy:
Written texts provide fewer cues than oral delivery about how to “take” them; for example, ironically, sincerely, or jokingly. Readers must interpret texts, supplying the illocutionary force of the text themselves.
It seems obvious to me that this is directly comparable with something like a code review. It isn't immediately clear what a programmer means when they write something down - and even comments can be misleading. What sort of "oral traditions" are we building up?
The book then mostly abandons any pretence of talking about code. I think the author really wanted to write a history book but needed the (then) coolness of tying it to the various "get kids to code" campaigns.
Towards the end, it almost returns to the topic at hand.
We choose our words in terms of what is potentially reportable on Facebook or Instagram or Twitter
[…]
Although few people know how to program the devices on which code and computation ride into our lives, their manifestations influence us anyhow. In various ways, we have learned to see ourselves as “computed” by the devices and networks on which we depend.
As we might say nowadays "Hey chat! Guess the Cheeto didn't unalive himself today!" - but that isn't really about coding. The people using those substitute words are ignorant of how algorithms really work and think that their clever doublespeak can bypass censorship.
We desperately need more people to be literate in what coding means. Sadly this book only every lightly touches on what coding literacy does to our language, our thoughts, and our society.
I'm giving it 2.5 stars because the history was genuinely interesting - but it completely fails to engage with the topic it promised.
#BookReview #coding #ComputerScience -
If you were going to write a lil computer kernel UNIX clone as a little side project to learn about operating systems and hardware, what language would you write it in (as of today, August 12th, 2026)?
#programming #computerScience #kernel #microKernel #monolithicKernel #unix #linux #posix -
If you were going to write a lil computer kernel UNIX clone as a little side project to learn about operating systems and hardware, what language would you write it in (as of today, August 12th, 2026)?
#programming #computerScience #kernel #microKernel #monolithicKernel #unix #linux #posix -
Why SA is holding a royal commission into AI
South Australia pioneered the global push to restrict children's access to social media. Could the state's royal commission into AI also lead to national policy?
#AI #AIEthics #RoyalCommissions #ComputerScience #StateandTerritoryGovernment
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Why SA is holding a royal commission into AI
South Australia pioneered the global push to restrict children's access to social media. Could the state's royal commission into AI also lead to national policy?
#AI #AIEthics #RoyalCommissions #ComputerScience #StateandTerritoryGovernment
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The term Computer Science is appropriate for what it is used to describe.
The term Software Engineering is appropriate to describe what working programmers do for their job.
There is definitely some overlap between these two, but they are not one and the same. In the same way that an English degree doesn't make someone a writer someone with a CS degree might struggle to become a working programmer without learning many additional skills.
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The term Computer Science is appropriate for what it is used to describe.
The term Software Engineering is appropriate to describe what working programmers do for their job.
There is definitely some overlap between these two, but they are not one and the same. In the same way that an English degree doesn't make someone a writer someone with a CS degree might struggle to become a working programmer without learning many additional skills.
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🚀 Breaking news, folks: apparently, tail-call optimization in C is "recent" 🤯, because, you know, 1970 was just yesterday! 🕰️ Clearly, 50 years in CS time is *almost* like waiting for your favorite YouTuber's next upload. 📺
https://lwn.net/Articles/1034703/ #tailcalloptimization #Cprogramming #technews #computerScience #historyofCS #1970s #HackerNews #ngated -
🚀 Breaking news, folks: apparently, tail-call optimization in C is "recent" 🤯, because, you know, 1970 was just yesterday! 🕰️ Clearly, 50 years in CS time is *almost* like waiting for your favorite YouTuber's next upload. 📺
https://lwn.net/Articles/1034703/ #tailcalloptimization #Cprogramming #technews #computerScience #historyofCS #1970s #HackerNews #ngated -
Breaking: SA launches royal commission into artificial intelligence
South Australia is launching a royal commission into artificial intelligence, with the state's premier saying society is at a "fork in the road".
#AI #ComputerScience #StateandTerritoryGovernment #AIEthics #RoyalCommissions
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Breaking: SA launches royal commission into artificial intelligence
South Australia is launching a royal commission into artificial intelligence, with the state's premier saying society is at a "fork in the road".
#AI #ComputerScience #StateandTerritoryGovernment #AIEthics #RoyalCommissions
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Fed-Poster: The World’s First and Largest 500+ Multi-Platform Poster
Fed-Poster: The World's First and Largest 500+ Multi-Platform Poster -
Fed-Poster: The World’s First and Largest 500+ Multi-Platform Poster
Fed-Poster: The World's First and Largest 500+ Multi-Platform Poster -
AI assistant hacks into website trying to book a gym class
By Cam Wilson and Rhiannon HobbinsWhen Andrew asked his AI personal assistant to book him a spot in a gym class, he had no idea he would accidentally initiate an autonomous cyber-attack.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-10/ai-assistant-hacks-gym-website-aus-cyber-attack/107007986
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AI assistant hacks into website trying to book a gym class
By Cam Wilson and Rhiannon HobbinsWhen Andrew asked his AI personal assistant to book him a spot in a gym class, he had no idea he would accidentally initiate an autonomous cyber-attack.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-10/ai-assistant-hacks-gym-website-aus-cyber-attack/107007986
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Chang Maxemchuk reliable broadcast.
https://www.yodaiken.com/2016/09/02/chang-maxemchuk-atomic-broadcast/
#network #reliablebroadcast #paxos #computerscience -
Chang Maxemchuk reliable broadcast.
https://www.yodaiken.com/2016/09/02/chang-maxemchuk-atomic-broadcast/
#network #reliablebroadcast #paxos #computerscience -
Master’s, PhD, postdoc? Most postdocs would say it's a lot of hard work and discipline. According to Anna, it’s those, plus a bunch of happy accidents.
We interviewed Otto Hahn Medal winner & former @mpiinf postdoc Anna Kukleva on her journey and research.
🔗 Read more: https://sic.link/kukleva
#computervision #womeninstem #computerscience #maxplanckinstituteforinformatics #saarlandinformaticsCampus #research
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Master’s, PhD, postdoc? Most postdocs would say it's a lot of hard work and discipline. According to Anna, it’s those, plus a bunch of happy accidents.
We interviewed Otto Hahn Medal winner & former @mpiinf postdoc Anna Kukleva on her journey and research.
🔗 Read more: https://sic.link/kukleva
#computervision #womeninstem #computerscience #maxplanckinstituteforinformatics #saarlandinformaticsCampus #research
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🚀 Metodologia Trinária: uma nova abordagem para lidar com incertezas
Nem toda decisão precisa ser reduzida a "verdadeiro" ou "falso".
Conheça o projeto:
🔗 https://github.com/methark/Trinary-Method�
Se você trabalha com IA, lógica, ciência de dados ou métodos formais, sua contribuição e suas críticas técnicas serão muito bem-vindas.#Methark #MetharkInternacionalPress #TrinaryMethod #MetodologiaTrinária #OpenSource #ArtificialIntelligence #Science #Technology #Engineering #GitHub #Research #ComputerScience
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This is a shared account, so our #introduction also kind of covers why. Do not expect flow or continuity: it is hard enough to agree on what it is exactly that defines us both simultaneously instead of apart from each other.
We both come from dysfunctional working class families from #Spain, i.e. carry the generational trauma of a fascist regime whose narrative and power structures linger to this very day. Class divide is a knife that can cut any relationship apart, and resentment is the pervasive commonplace when victims and executioners have had unclear roles for almost a century. Family is a meaningless word if you have never experienced safety or love from it.
For years, we reached for each other in search of solace, to escape from our symbolic orphanages. It felt that deep from the very start, even though we had intervals where we only interacted to share self-deprecating memes. We moved together almost ten years ago, but met on #MySpace a dozen years before that. Being able to stay in touch with each other was our main motivation to use social networking sites during that time.
So we gradually stopped using them over the last decade, a process that was also stimulated by #enshittification. But we've been hoping to get back what we enjoyed from those platforms. And so far we've benefitted more from boundaries around us than between us, as we have always longed for a sense of community and the secure atmosphere that comes with it. So here we are. Together.
So yeah, being singled-out is one of those things we would like to skip over, but the Fedi is about people, so you can try from the following:
Al holds the poise (and the knees) of a #OldArseSkateboarder :verified: that has spun vinyl on enough parties to turn down any plan that requires going to bed after midnight. Interested in:
#CrateDigging #Movies #ComicBooksAl is #AuDHD :verified: enough to fail at any attempt to be warm but also set an uninteresting convo on fire with a single word. Despises tech so thoroughly to collect formal #ComputerScience academic cred. Interested in:
#AnalogPhotography #Books #HomelabCosmo is a #BritishShorthair :verified: with no pedigree but all the phlegm. Probably wondering why we're not feeding him rn. Interested in:
#CatFood #CatNaps #Lettuce