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Yale professor defends describing a student's looks to Epstein: "This is how men behave"

In 2011, Yale computer science professor David Gelernter emailed Jeffrey Epstein about a job recommendation for an ...

The OpenMP ARB Launches Python Subcommittee, Welcomes Anaconda as Newest Member

Python will be the fourth officially-supported language in the OpenMP API; Leading Python infrastructure company Anaconda ...
Interesting Engineering

Testing living neurons as a computing substrate

Biocomputing research is testing living neurons for computation as scientists look for energy-efficient alternatives to ...
IEEE

On the Applicability of Code Language Models to Scientific Computing Programs

Abstract: Scientific Computing Programming Languages (SCPLs), like MATLAB and R, are popular and widely used for computational mathematics. In recent years, pre-trained code language models (CLMs) ...

How one developer used Claude to build a memory-safe extension of C

For at least the past ten years, there's been a rising chorus of voices calling for the adoption of memory-safe programming ...
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Excellence and impact recognized by world’s preeminent computing society

ACM has named 71 new Fellows. ACM Fellows are registered members of the society and were selected by their peers for achieving remarkable results through their technical innovations and/or service to ...
IEEE

DroMPI: Parallel Computation Over Drop Computing

Abstract: With the advancement of technology and the spread of multi-core systems, the need for parallelization arises and the interest in programming models is growing. At the same time, new ...