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Niklaus Emil Wirth, the creator of Pascal, winner of a Turing award, and fellow of the Computer History Museum, passed away on 1 January 2024 at the age of 89.
The funeral was held yesterday (24 January 2022) for Professor Juris Reinfelds, one of the landmark pioneers of computer science and the last survivor of a team that made Wollongong a global brand.
At its seventh annual Splunk .conf in Orlando this week, Splunk pledged US$100 million over 10 years for non-profits and educational institutions and the global expansion of its academic alliance.iTWire asked how this came about.
South Australia-based communications provider MIMP Connecting Solutions is teaming up with Flinders University to provide students with access to cutting edge telecommunications equipment.
According to Mattel no; because she is a girl she still needs the boys to help with those things called computers.
Google wants to see more women in technology and is putting its money where its mouth is, announcing a $50 million initiative in a bid to close the technology gender divide and teach girls how to code.
More than 25% of Australian IT graduates from the 2012 academic year did not get jobs in their profession. What's more, those that do have a job are getting paid significantly less than graduates of engineering and other sciences.
One of the problems with telling a rather public fib is that one has to keep on telling it in order to maintain the status quo. So it was with newly-appointed Yahoo! CEO Scott Thompson.
New South Wales high school students are again being given the opportunity to study a university-level computer science course, but the closing date for applications is looming.
The employment statistics for the class of 2010 graduates are out, and computer science graduates didn't fare particularly well.
The Association for Computing Machinery has named Leslie G. Valiant of Harvard University as winner of its 2010 ACM A.M. Turing Award for his fundamental contributions to the development of computational learning theory and to the broader theory of computer science.
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That MSI dragon laptop looks cool! But $11,799 ....... :O I might think on a bit longer :)
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