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://bit.ly/3HLgQ1K
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://bit.ly/PHWvideos
Happy birthday to programming-language pioneer Ken Thompson.
💻 designer of Unix
💻 inventor of B (predecessor to C)
💻 co-inventor of Google's Go
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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
1993: R
1995: PHP, Java & JS
2001: C#
2009: Go
2014: Swift
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://bit.ly/3iU8xXZ
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New algorithm enables artists to build free-form digital animations by combining centuries-old transportation theory with modern advancements in AI.
Paper: https://bit.ly/3ILV2DX