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Alan Turing's landmark paper "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem" [1] was presented to the London Mathematical Society on #onthisday in 1936, and subsequently published in the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society in 1937.

In this paper Turing introduced what we now know as the Turing machine, and laid the theoretical groundwork for what would become computer science. He was only 24 years old at the time.

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[1] "On Computable Numbers, with an Application to the Entscheidungsproblem", https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/Turing_Paper_1936.pdf

#alanturing #turingmachine #complexitytheory #math #maths #computability #computerscience


A Case for Feminism in Programming Language Design (2024)

Felienne Hermans, Ari Schlesinger

"Two critical and interrelated questions regarding the design and study of programming languages are: 1) What does it mean to design a programming language? and 2) Why does minimal demographic diversity persist in the programming language community? In this paper, we present feminism as a philosophical lens for analyzing the programming languages field in order to help us understand and answer the motivating questions above. By using a feminist lens, we are able to explore how the dominant intellectual and cultural norms have both shaped and constrained programming languages."

https://www.felienne.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/Feminism_in_Programming_Language_Design_CR_5-1.pdf

#programming #feminism #software #computerscience


Do you, or have you ever, used a graphical user interface? If you use #Windows, #macOS, or any version of #Linux with a window manager or desktop environment, you can thank Dr. Clarence "Skip" Ellis.

Dr. Ellis worked at Xerox PARC, the research organization that developed the modern GUI. Icons, windows, the mouse, Ethernet-based networking, laser printing - all of these (and more) came out of PARC. Dr. Ellis led the team that created Officetalk, the first program to use icons and the Internet. He got his start at 15 years old showing a local tech company how to reuse punch cards, which was a game-changer back in 1958.

Oh, and he was also the first black man to earn a PhD in Computer Science.

#BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistory #BlackMastodon #ComputerScience @blackmastodon

https://elective.collegeboard.org/clarence-skip-ellis-computer-science-pioneer
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarence_Ellis_(computer_scientist)
https://www.redhat.com/en/command-line-heroes/season-6/clarence-ellis


Reminder: we're hiring (tenure-track equivalent) at the University of #Sydney in #ComputerScience, deadline Nov 30 (🇦🇺 time)!

https://usyd.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/USYD_EXTERNAL_CAREER_SITE/job/Camperdown-Campus/Multiple-Continuing--Tenure-Track--Academic-Positions--School-of-Computer-Science_0111116-2 #academicjob


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