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MIT Open Courses: Free CS, AI and Algorithms Videos Online
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Patrick Winston’s 6.034 AI Lectures: 5 Million Views Legacy
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Today would have been the 80th birthday of Professor Patrick Winston, who passed away in 2019 after directing MIT’s AI lab for 25 years. Here are his complete video lectures for 6.034, which have been watched nearly 5 million times: http://
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Ken Thompson Birthday: Unix Creator and Programming Pioneer
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Happy birthday to programming-language pioneer Ken Thompson. designer of Unix inventor of B (predecessor to C) co-inventor of Google's Go http://
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MIT Researcher Publishes First Computer Science Paper in Telugu
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The Indian language Telugu has roughly 95 million speakers worldwide. But Indian students still lack STEM resources in their native languages — so an MIT researcher wrote the first original CS paper in Telugu: http://
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Guido van Rossum Birthday: Python Creator and Open Source Legacy
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Happy birthday to Python creator Guido van Rossum. The open source language was named after comedy troupe Monty Python: http://
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Data Science Hierarchy of Needs Framework
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The data-science hierarchy of needs. https://
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Effective Debugging: Thought and Strategic Print Statements
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“The most effective debugging tool is still careful thought, coupled with judiciously placed print statements.” — Brian Kernighan, co-creator of Unix
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Programming Languages Timeline: From Fortran to Swift
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When programming languages were created: 1957: Fortran
1958: LISP
1959: #COBOL
1964: BASIC
1972: C
1978: SQL
1980: C++
1991: Python
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As the Years Go By: Workplace Evolution in Tech
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Deep Learning Model Detects Lung Cancer Risk Without Radiologist
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Lung cancer is the No. 1 deadliest cancer in the world, yet many patients have never smoked. A new deep learning model can detect future lung cancer risk for these patients by analyzing image data — without help from a radiologist: http://
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