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Claude Shannon’s Information Theory Landmark Paper Celebrates 75th Anniversary

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02 July 2023 18h00

75 years ago this week Claude Shannon ushered in the field of information theory with his paper "A Mathematical Theory of Communication", which has been cited over 100,000 times: http://
bit.ly/2H0ZxvR (v/
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2 July 2023

MIT CSAIL Founded as Project MAC in 1963

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01 July 2023 18h00

MIT CSAIL was founded #otd in 1963 as “Project MAC.” Painting v/Carol Lake Studios

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1 July 2023

Von Neumann’s EDVAC Paper: Foundation of Modern Computing

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30 June 2023 18h00

#otd in 1945 John von Neumann published the EDVAC paper, which became the technological basis for all modern computers & included decisions like using binary to represent numbers: http://
bit.ly/2LT2qg7 (v/
@Forbes
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30 June 2023

Dijkstra on Abstraction: Precision Through Semantic Layers

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27 June 2023 18h00

“The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.” — Edsger Dijkstra

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27 June 2023

SQL Query Visualization by ByteByteGo

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26 June 2023 18h00

A SQL query, as visualized by @bytebytego
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26 June 2023

Grace Hopper: Computing Pioneer Beyond Age Barriers

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25 June 2023 18h00

To give context on age, Grace Hopper began computing at 38, completed the first compiler at 46, helped shape COBOL at 53, kept developing COBOL for the Navy in her 70s, retired from the Navy at 80 & then became a consultant for the Digital Equipment Corporation. v/
@cooperx86

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25 June 2023

New Algorithm Achieves Sublinear Complexity for Distribution Similarity Search

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24 June 2023 18h00

A new algorithm for similarity search in distributions achieves sublinear sample complexity & query time. This opens up opportunities for efficient data analysis and improved ML applications: http://
bit.ly/3PuiQ2R

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24 June 2023

Vint Cerf Birthday: TCP/IP Protocol Pioneer Honored

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23 June 2023 19h00

Happy birthday to Vint Cerf, who invented TCP/IP w/Bob Kahn when the pair submitted a paper describing a protocol for sending packets across networks: https://
bit.ly/2QbDPpi

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23 June 2023

Alan Turing Birthday: Computing Pioneer Portrait Algorithm

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23 June 2023 18h00

Happy birthday to #AlanTuring, the creator of modern computing. Here he is w/his portrait algorithmically approximated by ellipses: http://
bit.ly/28NTTv4 (Image v/
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23 June 2023