Meta's most-famous employee Yann LeCun who calls himself a computer science professor tells students not to study computer science and instead focus on

Yann LeCun, former Meta AI chief and Godfather of AI teaches computer science at New York University (NYU). During a recent ...

They graduated from Stanford. Due to AI, they can’t find a job

Stanford computer science graduates are discovering their degrees no longer guarantee jobs as AI coding tools now outpace entry-level programmers. Tech companies are replacing 10 junior developers ...

Alabama board of education approves mandatory computer science courses

The Computer Science for Alabama Act required all K-12 public schools to offer computer science courses or integrate computer ...
Medical Xpress

Relearning basic movements may ease chronic lower back pain, study finds

Millions of people struggle with lower back pain worldwide. Now, surprising new research from the University of South Australia shows that relearning 'baby' movements such as crawling, rolling and ...
The Cornell Daily Sun

BURZLAFF | The Basics (4): The Study of Rest

I’ve always found that one of the quietest and sharpest ironies of campus life is how confidently we treat exhaustion as evidence of achievement. You hear it everywhere at this point in the semester — ...
Chicago Tribune

Study finds recidivism down among youths in Cook County court program offering links to social services

Juveniles who participated in a Cook County court program that defers prosecution while offering social services were charged with new criminal offenses at lower rates than their peers, according to ...
The Washington Post

Here’s what the data says people ask ChatGPT

SAN FRANCISCO — ChatGPT maker OpenAI released the first detailed study of what its users do with the popular chatbot and who they are, providing an unprecedented look at how people use the artificial ...
University of Vermont

Stored program paradigm

One of the most important breakthroughs in computing was the stored-program concept, proposed by John von Neumann and colleagues in 1945 in the design of the EDVAC computer. The idea was simple but ...
ZDNet

MS-BASIC 1.1 introduced programming to a generation - now you can download it for free

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...
PC World

Microsoft’s first-ever programming language was just open-sourced

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...
Ars Technica

Microsoft open-sources Bill Gates’ 6502 BASIC from 1978

On Wednesday, Microsoft released the complete source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 Version 1.1, the 1978 interpreter that powered the Commodore PET, VIC-20, Commodore 64, and Apple II through ...