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FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado
Indiana University quietly removes profile of tenured professor and refuses to say why.
FBI raids home of prominent #ComputerScientist who has gone incommunicado
Indiana #University quietly removes profile of tenured #professor and refuses to say why.
Xiaofeng Wang was the associate dean for research at Indiana University's Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/03/computer-scientist-goes-silent-after-fbi-raid-and-purging-from-university-website/
FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado
Bonus #artAdventCalendar: Happy birthday to #mathematician & #computerscientist US Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper (1906-1992) who popularized the revolutionary idea of developing machine-independent programming languages based on English.
She began teaching at Vassar in 31 & got PhD (Yale) in 34. She found marriage & teaching less fulfilling & tried to enlist in the Navy, but was rejected then got a special exemption to volunteer for 
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Do what you enjoy and earn money for it.
How a stubborn #computerscientist accidentally launched the #deeplearning boom
"You’ve taken this idea way too far," a mentor told Prof. Fei-Fei Li, who was creating a new image #dataset that would be far larger than any that had come before: 14 million images, each labeled with one of nearly 22,000 categories. Then in 2012, a team from Univ of Toronto trained a #neura network on #ImageNet, achieving unprecedented performance in image recognition, dubbed #AlexNet.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/11/how-a-stubborn-computer-scientist-accidentally-launched-the-deep-learning-boom/ #AI
Just How Much Can We Trust #AI. to Predict #ExtremeWeather?
#Computerscientist and #meteorologist Amy McGovern has studied the #technology for two decades, and she weighs in with some answers
#IreneZhang from #Microsoft #Research: "The Moral Implications of Being a Moderately Successful #ComputerScientist and a #Woman"
"my very existence as a moderately young, moderately successful computer scientist threatens some men's sense of identity, thus making them uncomfortable and/or lash out."
#IT #Researcher #GenderBias #academia #women @academicchatter
»#TheGodmotherofAI says #California’s well-intended #AIbill will #harm the U.S. #ecosystem: #FeiFeiLi, PhD, is a #computerscientist who is widely credited with being the 'Godmother of AI'. https://fortune.com/2024/08/06/godmother-of-ai-says-californias-ai-bill-will-harm-us-ecosystem-tech-politics/?eicker.news #tech #media
#LynnConway, #revolutionary #trans #computerscientist & #activist, #dies at 86.
Her #family remembers her for her #kind #heart and immense #wisdom
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Technology #Activism #RoleModels #Representation #Culture
#LynnConway, #trailblazing #trans #computerscientist, #dies at 85.
The former #IBM and #XerosPAC #engineer reportedly #passedaway in her #home in #Jackson, #Michigan on Sunday (10 June) following #complications due to a #heartcondition, according to her #husband, #CharlesRogers. “I was by her side the entire time, and was holding her hand when she passed,” he said in the statement. “I don’t know what I will do without the love of my life.”
https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/06/12/lynn-conway-obituary/
As a #ComputerScientist, I believe that #automation *can* make things better for us. Unfortunately, it appears that tech companies are giving up on trying to solve actual problems and instead are pushing solutions with problematic implications.
For example: #Facebook has shown me “Try a suggested comment” for posts from friends and family. This is not predictive text to help me type, this is replacing my voice. Am I wrong to want to #KeepMyOwnVoice?
Our latest episode "Brains, Drones and Smart Apps For Our Phones" is finally out! https://2scientists.org/podcast/drone
A year since our last release and longer since we spoke with Marvin Andujar, a #ComputerScientist working on all the things we can control with out brains. both for fun, and a way to increase #accessibility and improve #MentalHealth.
Thanks to The Easy Button for use of their track “She doesn’t live there anymore”.
#artAdventCalendar Happy birthday to #mathematician & #computerscientist US Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper (1906-1992) who popularized the revolutionary idea of developing machine-independent programming languages based on English.
She began teaching at Vassar in 31 & got PhD (Yale) in 34. She found marriage & teaching less fulfilling & tried to enlist in the Navy, but was rejected then got a special exemption to volunteer 1/n
Hello! #introductions
I'm a #ComputationalBiologist (1st #biochemist, then #ComputerScientist). I'm faculty at UConn Health. I'm interested in many scientific areas such as #SystemsBiology, #ComputationalModeling and #Simulation, #IronMetabolism, #NonlinearDynamics, #SoftwareDevelopment. I'm one of the authors of the @copasi simulation software and its predecessor Gepasi (thus my handle). I care about #OpenAccess & #OpenSource. I am also interested in #photography, #Linux, and #EVs.
Today's Jew of the Day is John McCarthy!
John McCarthy was a computer scientist, the creator of the Lisp family of languages, and one of the founders of artificial intelligence. McCarthy's contributions to computer science are vast and include fundamental ideas around how we use computers today. In the late 1950s, his discoveries around recursion, symbolic computing and lambda calculus lead to the LISP, as well as logic programming.
While working on Lisp, he pioneered the invention of automatic memory management and garbage collection, and later pioneered time-sharing- which is fundamental to multitasking. He helped found the MIT "Project MAC" as well as the Standford AI Lab.
McCarthy won many awards in his life, including the Turing Award, the Kyoto Prize, the National Medal of Science, and the Benjamin Franklin Metal.
At @techreview briefing, #CognitivePsychologist and #ComputerScientist Geoffrey Hinton spoke about how he’s helped build #machines that are #immortal and the various dangers these machines now pose to #humanity: “Smart things can outsmart us,” says Hinton. https://flip.it/7DsyHn #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #SpiritualMachines #Singularity via @Forbes