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CompSci Society Annual Dinner... very posh.
This was taken using time exposure of 2 seconds - hence the nice candlit effect on the glasses.
Governor Phil Murphy announces the selection of Trenton Central High School to launch a P-TECH school in Trenton on February 6, 2020. (Edwin J. Torres for Governor’s Office).
Governor Phil Murphy announces the selection of Trenton Central High School to launch a P-TECH school in Trenton on February 6, 2020. (Edwin J. Torres for Governor’s Office).
Governor Phil Murphy announces the selection of Trenton Central High School to launch a P-TECH school in Trenton on February 6, 2020. (Edwin J. Torres for Governor’s Office).
Governor Phil Murphy announces the selection of Trenton Central High School to launch a P-TECH school in Trenton on February 6, 2020. (Edwin J. Torres for Governor’s Office).
Governor Phil Murphy announces the selection of Trenton Central High School to launch a P-TECH school in Trenton on February 6, 2020. (Edwin J. Torres for Governor’s Office).
Governor Phil Murphy announces the selection of Trenton Central High School to launch a P-TECH school in Trenton on February 6, 2020. (Edwin J. Torres for Governor’s Office).
Ece Kamar, a senior researcher at Microsoft Research, discusses the limitations of artificial intelligence at UMass Amherst, Oct. 26, 2018. Photo by Joe Frank.
Governor Phil Murphy announces the selection of Trenton Central High School to launch a P-TECH school in Trenton on February 6, 2020. (Edwin J. Torres for Governor’s Office).
Should a senior in Comp Sci know what a .tar file is?
"... Should a senior in Comp Sci know what a .tar file is? ..."
This is a statement telling me what the comp-sci is not doing:
- not interested in "systems" by not downloading installing free operating systems & servers
- not interested in software "tools" by not using free software compilers downloading new & interesting code to sample and understand
- not interested in "making things" because a lot of software is still delivered as source code wrapped in tar.
- just plain not interested
From physicists to chemists, archaeologists to biologists people in science use, hack and develop their own tools on computers to solve their problems and would most likely encounter tar.
$ tar -zxvf foo.tar.gz
The computer is just another tool. For comp-sci's to not know what a ".tar", how it works [0] is just plain ignorance of the worst kind.
Reference
[0] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_(file_format)
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Governor Phil Murphy announces the selection of Trenton Central High School to launch a P-TECH school in Trenton on February 6, 2020. (Edwin J. Torres for Governor’s Office).
Governor Phil Murphy announces the selection of Trenton Central High School to launch a P-TECH school in Trenton on February 6, 2020. (Edwin J. Torres for Governor’s Office).
Governor Phil Murphy announces the selection of Trenton Central High School to launch a P-TECH school in Trenton on February 6, 2020. (Edwin J. Torres for Governor’s Office).
Governor Phil Murphy announces the selection of Trenton Central High School to launch a P-TECH school in Trenton on February 6, 2020. (Edwin J. Torres for Governor’s Office).
Governor Phil Murphy announces the selection of Trenton Central High School to launch a P-TECH school in Trenton on February 6, 2020. (Edwin J. Torres for Governor’s Office).
Governor Phil Murphy announces the selection of Trenton Central High School to launch a P-TECH school in Trenton on February 6, 2020. (Edwin J. Torres for Governor’s Office).
The tradition of honoring the University of Colorado’s best with Alumni Association Awards began in 1930. Pictured from left in the front row are this years award recipients, Don Grusin (Soc'63,MEcon'66), Josh Stuart (CompSci,MCDBio'96), Jeff Lipton (MBA'75,MFin'79), Marty Coffin Evans (Engl'64), Dick Burridge (Fin'51) and Michael Breed. On the steps from left are award recipients Steve Cape (PhDChemEngr'02), Bill Ritter (Law'81), David Norris and Richard Wobbekind (MEcon'79, PhD'84).
The George Norlin Award honors outstanding alumni for their careers and service to society. Recipients of the 2006 Norlin Award are: Richard Burridge Sr., a highly respected Chicago investment banker and philanthropist; Donald Grusin of Los Angeles, a Grammy
Award-winning musician, composer arranger and producer; and William Ritter Jr., a Denver attorney, volunteer and gubernatorial
candidate.
Four CU faculty and staff members received the Robert Stearns Award in recognition of their extraordinary contributions to the
university: Michael Breed, an award-winning biology professor who has chaired three departments on campus; Jeffrey Lipton, who has
directed CU-Boulder’s facilities management and real estate services and helped develop the Research Park; David Norris, professor of integrative physiology, who has been at CU since 1966 and pursues vital research on pollutants and the endocrine system; and Richard Wobbekind, Colorado’s premier economic forecaster who has been studying and teaching at CU since 1976.
The Alumni Recognition Award was presented to Boulderite Marty Coffin Evans for, among her many contributions to the university, serving as a productive and enthusiastic volunteer for the Alumni Association and the College of Music.
The 2006 Kalpana Chawla Outstanding Recent Graduate Awards went to vaccine researcher and developer Stephen Cape of Boulder and genetic researcher Josh Stuart of Santa Cruz, Calif.
I feel like if I don't document my thoughts that have occurred to me during this life changing week, I'd soon forget and lose this experience.
I'd like to begin with saying: I have had, literally, not kidding, the BEST THREE HOURS OF MY LIFE. I've never felt so challenged, so intrigued, so captivated, so amazed, so dumbfounded, and so wholly enlightened in my life. That dinner meal, after a series of coincidences starting from calso, convocation, and the dining hall closed, with the six of my new friends (one old friend), in the Korean restaurant. The food wasn't even fantastic. Yet, I'll remember the conversation we had. The most useless, but the most intellectually stimulating talk, ever. It's like seven danniels times a hundred, each from different disciplines: compsci, physics, sociology, math, psych... We argued and talked so much, about the parallel universes, how there are technically alternate universes but how perception or our single world technology causes the universes to collapse into one possibility: that's why the cup falls when you let go, when theoretically it can go in all directions. Like Schrödinger's cat, and the dual properties of light but there's the double slit experiment that collapses perception into "light is a particle" and the dual magnetic spin of an electron, or the economics behind big coin, or how target hacking works, or how a computer algorithm is found to decipher all the "safe encoding" and nothing electronic is now safe, or the theory behind infinity, and how there's only one electron in this world but the electron and its antimatter positron travels back and forth through time and space that's why they are all the same. Confused, amazed, puzzled, then enlightened: the best feelings in the world to learn. I feel like all my life I was searching and would be searching for such intellectual stimulation, and it would make me absolutely happy; like nothing else mattered in that moment but to understand and appreciate the world that way.
I love college for that. A place to be around people a million times smarter than I could be.
Borrowing Melody's iPad for my electronic textbook and laptop to test a homework exercise from it. Visualizing the interaction between the components on paper with an electronic pen. It was a late night (all nights are late in my world.)
I went bowling (£8, all you can bowl) with the Compscis, and as well
as kicking ass (153 twice) this was waiting to greet me in the
arcade. I was only aware that this had come out in Japan (which I now
know to be wrong, but it only served to increase the surprise
element), so of course, I had to play. I took on Martin, with myself
playing as Blinky and he as Yoshi, who are stat clones of each other;
as such, it was a pure test of skill. I maintain that my item button
was a bit dodgy, but I still managed to place third, with Martin in
fourth - and isn't that what really matters?
Governor Phil Murphy announces a five-point Computer Science for ALL State Plan and FY20 Funding Opportunities at Bridgewater-Raritan High School on November 4, 2019. .(Edwin J. Torres/Governor’s Office)
Quảng bá ẩm thực Việt Nam đến bạn bè quốc tế =)
- 98 cái nem (98 spring rolls)
- 1 đĩa chả lá lốt (A full plate of minced pork in betel leaves - my family grew the betel leaves on our own)
- 1 hộp ruốc (one jar of salted shredded pork, made by my grandmother)
- CompSci jokes
- "International Fun"
- Questions of Kris' hair and the existence of his girlfriend
- Other (inappropriate) jokes
- Awesome evening
- Awesome people
Governor Phil Murphy announces a five-point Computer Science for ALL State Plan and FY20 Funding Opportunities at Bridgewater-Raritan High School on November 4, 2019. .(Edwin J. Torres/Governor’s Office)
There was one of these next to the printer output room at the University of Alberta "way back when". They were a lot of fun to "play" with. For the compsci folks in the crowd - they used a radix sort to sort the cards.
Governor Phil Murphy announces a five-point Computer Science for ALL State Plan and FY20 Funding Opportunities at Bridgewater-Raritan High School on November 4, 2019. .(Edwin J. Torres/Governor’s Office)
Governor Phil Murphy announces a five-point Computer Science for ALL State Plan and FY20 Funding Opportunities at Bridgewater-Raritan High School on November 4, 2019. .(Edwin J. Torres/Governor’s Office)
This is a fabulous book - a really joyful alphabetical account of the special language of computing. The book is based on that anthropological wonder the Jargon File, a living dictionary of computing and tech language that was maintained by Computer Science students and professors at the big AI and CompSci faculties in the USA in the 1970s and 80s and is still online, although unmaintained.
This lovely 1996 MIT Press edition has detailed, funny and sarcastic glosses from editor (and programmer) Eric Raymond. He takes every definition - even for the most ephemeral of these hyper-niche terms - as seriously as the most pedantic OED lexicographer and there are detailed etymologies and citations.
An earlier edition of this book were a real inspiration to me in the early days of my exploration of computing, cyberculture, the Internet and all that. Like a lot of his generation Raymond turns out to be a bit of a loon - a libertarian and a gun nut, but this book is a work of art and a vital record of the wit and vitality of the communities that together produced the explosion of creativity in post-war computing and then the Internet.
I'm an undiagnosed nerd. If the category even existed in the new town I grew up in in the 1970s I didn't know it and I certainly never connected with any of the other members. The closest I came to a computer in that period was the exotic chatter of the teletype connected to a mainframe at Hatfield Poly that we heard through a locked door in the maths building at school. So I didn't meet a computer for another ten years, at Central London Poly where I was studying photography. So once I'd made my connection with computers it was probably already too late for me to properly internalise that way of thinking (like a musician who starts to learn the cello at 22 and has to acknowledge they'll never be more than competent).
But I began to soak up all the key texts of the computer revolution - the most important to me being Byte Magazine, Ted Nelson's various nutty desiderata and then, over time, the expanding library of O'Reilly textbooks and this book. All brought me an awareness of a complete - if sometimes kind of hermetic - subculture of brilliant, creative, undeferential, anarchic hackers. I've always wished I might actually have joined the gang but, although that wasn't possible (can't code!), I've got so much from their way of thinking and solving problems. This book is a kind of distilled expression of that worldview.
You can still buy the book but it hasn't been updated since this edition, so it's essentially a wonderful fossil - a snapshot of the language of the pre-web IT crowd.
More book reviews on goodreads.
Governor Phil Murphy announces a five-point Computer Science for ALL State Plan and FY20 Funding Opportunities at Bridgewater-Raritan High School on November 4, 2019. .(Edwin J. Torres/Governor’s Office)
Computer Science activities at the UBC Science Rendezvous.
Aftermath of the floor tiling, when we had run out of supplies but not started cleaning up. Many kids still kept coming just to draw on the paper and continue chopping up the tiling squares into tinier and tinier bits.