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Posted on Congratulations to Jordan Henkel for being chosen a 2021 Microsoft Research Fellow! Students are nominated by their university for this prestigious award, and only ten fellowships were awarded this year. Students receive two years of tuition and fees at their educational institution, a stipend, and an invitation to a two-day PhD summit. Henkel works with Professor Thomas Reps on the intersection of Programming Languages, Software Engineering, and Machine Learning. For more about...

Looking back 12 months at Insider’s preview of 2020, the danger of making even short-term predictions is starkly illustrated! The upcoming General Election, a post-Brexit trade deal, and the ongoing housing crisis were cited as the issues likely to dominate the political year; as it turned out, all featured but there was not one word about the issue that dominated the year - Covid-19.

 E-Mail Contemporary robots can move quickly. "The motors are fast, and theyre powerful," says Sabrina Neuman. Yet in complex situations, like interactions with people, robots often dont move quickly. "The hang up is whats going on in the robots head," she adds. Perceiving stimuli and calculating a response takes a "boatload of computation," which limits reaction time, says Neuman, who recently graduated with a PhD from the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). ...

Designing customized “brains” for robots January 21, 2021MIT A new system devises hardware architectures to hasten robots’ response time. Contemporary robots can move quickly. “The motors are fast, and they’re powerful,” says Sabrina Neuman. Yet in complex situations, like interactions with people, robots often don’t move quickly. “The hang up is what’s going on in the robot’s head,” she adds. Perceiving stimuli and calculating a response takes a “boatload of computation...

Here the findings are largely unchanged from 2018: for the selected benchmark code, the code generation by our selected compilers has not changed significantly. Only the new hardware CPU influences the measurements: the new CPU has a higher clock frequency than previously, so for an equivalent mix of instructions we expect and observe a 10-40% raw performance improvement. Additionally, the Ryzen 7 3950X architecture has a somewhat more powerful superscalar execution unit than the 1800X, and is...

Infinite Negative Utility September 28, 2014 Apparently, Ive got a theme going of Weird Syntax. Lets run with it. Konrad Zuse was an early pioneer in computer science, although his name is perhaps somewhat less well-known than others. Zuse holds the honor of having built the first programmable computer—-the Z3—-back in the 40s, as well as several other computing firsts 1. Of particular interest to this blog post is his early unimplemented programming language, Plankalkül. Plankalkül was, ...

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Introducing the Smalltalk Zoo Share In commemoration of the 40 th anniversary of the release of Smalltalk-80, the Computer History Museum is proud to announce a collaboration with Dan Ingalls to preserve and host the “Smalltalk Zoo.” Below, computer scientist Adele Goldberg explains the vision behind Smalltalk. What is Smalltalk, and what is the Smalltalk Zoo? The Smalltalk Zoo is a collection of historical versions of the revolutionary graphical programming and user environment Smalltalk, ...

Is there still research to be done in Programming Languages? This essay touches both on the topic of programming languages and on the nature of research work. I am mostly concerned in analyzing this question in the context of Academia, i.e. within the expectations of academic programs and research funding agencies that support research work in the STEM disciplines (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). This is not the only possible perspective, but it is the one I am taking here. ...