This is the second award given in two years to theorists from @UWCheritonCS
, after my colleague Sepehr Assadi last year. A testament to the amazing environment for doing great work. Waterloo is one of the few places with > 1 winner (alongside MIT, Princeton, Cornell, and MPI) 3/7
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Waterloo CS Theorists Win Second Award in Two Years
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Presburger Award Winners Inspire Next Generation Theorists
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Past winners of Presburger are basically a who's who of the most brilliant young theorists of the last 15 years, including many of my idols. I find this intimidating but it also inspires me to try to live up to the example they've set. 2/7
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Top Data Science Books About AI for 2026
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Top Data Science Books About AI for 2026! #BigData #Analytics #DataScience #IoT #IIoT #PyTorch #Python #RStats #TensorFlow #Java #JavaScript #ReactJS #GoLang #CloudComputing #Serverless #DataScientist #Linux #Books #Programming #Coding #100DaysofCode https://
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Advanced SQL Books for Software Engineers and Data Science
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Advanced #SQL #Books for #Software Engineer! #BigData #Analytics #DataScience #IoT #IIoT #Python #RStats #TensorFlow #Java #JavaScript #ReactJS #CloudComputing #Serverless #DataScientist #Linux #Books #Programming #Coding #100DaysofCode https://
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Paul Graham on Kids and Technology Education Impact
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Predatory Academic Publishers Under Fire
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Terrible, terrible. Poor predatory academic publishers. https://t.co/janCoJ80eg
— Bojan Tunguz (@tunguz) 27 avril 2026Terrible, terrible. Poor predatory academic publishers.
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CDSCO-IndiaAI Hackathon Webinar: Expert Validation and Evaluation
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Join the CDSCO–IndiaAI Hackathon Webinar and learn directly from the experts. With just 1 day to go, this webinar will be help in validating your approach, understand evaluation criteria and make your application stronger, sharper and more aligned. Register here:
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Free Anthropic Masterclass: Master Claude Prompting Techniques
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🚨 the Anthropic team just dropped an absolute goldmine.
— Charly Wargnier (@DataChaz) 27 avril 2026
A 24-minute masterclass on how to actually prompt Claude.
And it is completely FREE.
Taught by the actual creators.
Want to take it a step further?
Then read Khairallah’s ace prompting guide I added below 💥↓ https://t.co/XGKQEBg968 pic.twitter.com/YhrF2ChpMCthe Anthropic team just dropped an absolute goldmine. A 24-minute masterclass on how to actually prompt Claude. And it is completely FREE. Taught by the actual creators. Want to take it a step further? Then read Khairallah’s ace prompting guide I added below ↓
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AI childhood imagination space future skills
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What worries me is not that children are growing up with technology.
— Pascal Bornet (@pascal_bornet) 27 avril 2026
It is that too many are growing up with less space to imagine without it.
And in an AI-driven world, that matters more than ever.
Because the qualities we will value most in the future are not the easiest… pic.twitter.com/2sCuHe7KPPWhat worries me is not that children are growing up with technology. It is that too many are growing up with less space to imagine without it. And in an AI-driven world, that matters more than ever. Because the qualities we will value most in the future are not the easiest
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Tools Meant to Free Time Yet Require Learning Time
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The irony being that the tools are supposed to free up your time to learn the tools.