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Happy Birthday to Turing Laureate Michael Stonebraker! Stonebraker received the #ACMTuringAward in 2014 for fundamental contributions to the concepts and practices underlying modern database systems. Stonebraker describes his work with Eugene Wong and others at Berkeley to develop the original version of INGRES, one of the earliest and most influential relational database management systems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0da-1IJH2OQ&t=4s
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On this day in 1931, 2001 #ACMTuringAward recipient Ole-Johan Dahl was born. Ole-Johan Dahl received the ACM Turing Award with Kristen Nygaard for ideas fundamental to the emergence of object-oriented programming, through their design of the programming languages Simula I and Simula 67. \ Today, object-oriented programming is the dominant style of programming for commercial and industrial applications. 🔗 https://amturing.acm.org/award_winners/dahl_6917600.cfm #OTD
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Happy Birthday to Turing Laureate Silvio Micali! Micali received the #ACMTuringAward in 2012 along with Shafi Goldwasser, for transformative work that laid the complexity-theoretic foundations for the science of cryptography, and in the process pioneered new methods for efficient verification of mathematical proofs in complexity theory. In this video, Micali introduces his work on zero knowledge proofs: https://youtu.be/LXF882rEIj8
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Today in #ComputingHistory, we celebrate #AdaLovelaceDay, an international celebration of women in STEM. Ada Lovelace Day was established in 2009 to honor her legacy and highlight the many contributions of women in STEM. It strives to inspire future generations to pursue careers in these fields. In 1843, Ada Lovelace published what is widely regarded as the first computer program. Her legacy continues to inspire. #OTD https://www.acm.org/education/otd-in-computing-history
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This October, celebrate Cybersecurity Awareness Month by committing to strengthening cybersecurity in your organization to protect customers, communities, and critical infrastructure. Learn more about the key pillars of modern government digital services to build a strategic approach to moving forward. https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3769690
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As #IberoAmericanHeritageMonth comes to a close, ACM proudly thank our student chapters for their passion, hard work, and dedication to computing. 🌎 Our final stop is in Peru featuring chapters from University of Engineering and Technology and Universidad Católica San Pablo. 🖥️
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Congratulations to Daniel Reed, recipient of the 2026 ACM-IEEE CS Ken Kennedy Award for groundbreaking achievements in parallel and high-performance computing! 🏆 Reed is recognized for pioneering contributions to HPC, scalable systems, and national cyberinfrastructure, as well as exceptional leadership and mentorship across the computing community. 🔗 Learn more: https://buff.ly/n2jiYFW #HPC #Supercomputing
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You can’t prevent or predict the next systems meltdown. But you can build resilience into your systems and organization before the next crisis strikes. Find out the answer in "What's in Your Software Repair Kit?", featured in the latest edition of ACM Substack series, "Queue: In Practice." https://buff.ly/bSLZuli #reliability #software #engineering
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Join ACM A.M. Turing Award Laureate Charles Bennett and top experts at the inaugural ACM Conference on Post-Quantum and Quantum-based Security (PQQS), presented by ACM SIGSAC. PQQS is a new annual venue focused on research at the intersection of cybersecurity, post-quantum cryptography, quantum cryptography, and quantum computing systems. 📅 When: November 2–4, 2026 📍 Where: Embassy Suites by Hilton Milpitas Silicon Valley 🔗 Register now: https://acm-pqqs.github.io/pqqs2026/participants/regist...
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Why is synthetic data "a big mistake?" Watch ACM Turing Laureate Richard Sutton share his take. Source: Sequoia Capital YouTube Channel "Rich Sutton and Khurram Javed: Why AI Models Stop Learning, and How to Start It Again" #syntheticdata #reinforcementlearning #generativeai
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Welcome to the latest issue of Advances in Computing, your trusted source for computing news and insights! In this issue: ✔️ Turing Laureate Vint Cerf speaks with CACM about his post-retirement initiatives and thoughts on AI agents ✔️ The potential return of oral exams with the help of voice AI ✔️ What happens when AI becomes first listener ...and more. 📩 Subscribe & share: https://theofficialacm.substack.com/p/vinton-g-cerf-considers-ai-agents?r=6w5qsy&utm_campaign=post&u...
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Who are ACM and who do we represent? Based on over 110,000 survey responses, this snapshot reveals a global community witnessing major generational demographic differences. These findings matter because they help us understand not just who participates in ACM today, but also whose presence and voices are missing. Learn more: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3811412 Join ACM and help shape the future of computing with us: https://bit.ly/4hScjvl
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Haider Warraich is "super bullish" on open source models. Why? Check out his latest interview with ACM Bytecast. Full conversation here: https://buff.ly/OXn3SKR #AIMedicine
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Paul Goldsmith with a quote for the ages on PM Luxon foolishly insulting NZ's small businesses. “...the words didn’t come out quite right” It's funny watching National MPs having to explain to media that their leader is not a blithering idiot trapped in a world of corporate speak. Here's another Goldsmith quote. “The words that came out gave the impression that we don’t support small businesses – of course we do." If Christopher Luxon doesn't have imposter syndrome by...
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Anyone got a php to perl conversation program?
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I call it Sojourner :)
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Updated my #Ubuntu 26.04 machine, suddenly my #chromium #flatpak fails to start and throws: "cups.sock too many levels of symbolic links" Luckily #AskUbuntu user "Gabriele Pigozzo" has the workaround, downgrade bubblewrap: apt install bubblewrap=0.11.1-1ubuntu0.1 Can I just say how grateful I am for the regular, normal, non-LLM, old-skool internet? 😄 https://askubuntu.com/questions/1569675/flatpaks-not-launching-bwrap-cant-resolve-var-run-cups-cups-sock-to...
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Undertime - pick a #meeting time ( https://gitlab.com/anarcat/undertime ) Need to convert/view/compare your #time / #timezone with others, because you work with people all around the globe? This #terminal tool will help you out. Found this terminal #Python gem, because I was looking for an open source and offline alternative. It is quick, to the point and copyleft licensed (AGPLv3). Note: Before I was using TimeAndDate.com ( https://www.timeanddate.com/ ).
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Er is een #DigiD computer programma uitgegeven, eindelijk een smartphone-vrije mogelijkheid 😄 Helaas is het programma enkel beschikbaar voor #Microsoft #Windows en #Apple #MacOS waardoor alsnog burgers buitengesloten worden die vrije software gebruiken (zonder een afhankelijkheid van #BigTech) @DigitaleOverheid @Logius Hoe kunnen we ervoor zorgen dat er een versie komt die op #Linux draait/functioneert/ondersteund is? ( of een platform onafhankelijke versie ) https://www.rijksoverheid.nl/act...
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The safest childrens bed, can be found at the Dutch online shop Bol.com (brand: ML Design). This bed apparently has a surprising feature: "Safe protection from radioactive precipitation" 🤣 #humor #sales #bol #dutch https://www.bol.com/nl/nl/p/kinderbed-met-uitvalbeveiliging-lattenbodem-en-dak-200x90-cm-dennenhout-naturel-ml-design/9300000127610710/
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October challenge: No Sloptober ( https://no-sloptober.com/ ) Use October to challenge yourself and not use LLM based tools for an entire month. Can you rise to the challenge? 💪 Of course I will join this challenge and hope to come our victoriously 🤞 @angrynerdspodcast Thanks to the Angry Nerds podcast for the hint
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Apparently this is actually still occurring and he is not the only one and it is not limited to the #USA Showed this to someone (also in his/her 30s) from the #EU and was shocked that this sounded familiar... Let's be the change and prevent our brains from bitrotting away. #LLM #AI Source (unfortunately) was from #X ( #Twitter ): https://x.com/astnkennedy/status/2049942673608352236
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Got forwarded this #LLM / #AI generated music video, with a catchy tune and "interesting" lyrics. It is funny because it is true and reading the comments, at least several other people online agree. And yes, I do not want to know how many trees were burnt or how much water was used to create this music video... (feeling quite conflicted) LGTM (Looks Good to Me) - Claude Opus 5.5 video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TNpOD6bov8 #humor #funny #lgtm #aislop
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Yet another day, yet another #security #vulnerability , this time it is #php and the fix is not available (yet). https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/php-maintainers-tell-web-devs-to-prepare-themselves-for-critical-security-patches/ If you want to take your website offline (temporarily of course), until your webhost has patched everything, you could deny access to to your entire website by putting this in your .htaccess : Order Deny,Allow Deny from all ErrorDocument 403 "Tempora...
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HAPPY CAPS LOCK DAY EVERYONE! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caps_Lock