ITC - Ing. en Tecnologías Computacionales, Tecnológico de Monterrey

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In the early 1950s, computers were giant, room-sized machines that understood only binary code made up of 0s and 1s. Programming them meant writing long strings of numerical instructions, a process that was time-consuming and prone to error. That changed in 1952 when Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, a brilliant mathematician and U.S. Navy officer, developed the first compiler. Her innovation allowed programmers to write instructions in English-like language, which the compiler would then translate into machine code. This was a radical shift that made programming more accessible and efficient.

Grace Hopper's compiler paved the way for COBOL, one of the earliest high-level programming languages. COBOL was designed to resemble plain English so that non-specialists, including managers and businesspeople, could understand and even write code. Hopper's belief that computers should serve people, not the other way around, helped democratize computing. She was also known for popularizing the term "debugging" after removing an actual moth from a computer relay, which had caused a malfunction. Her career in both military and computer science earned her widespread recognition, including the National Medal of Technology and posthumously the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Thanks to Hopper's work, programming evolved from an obscure, technical field into a foundational skill of the digital age. Her ideas influenced generations of software engineers and shaped how we interact with machines today. What was once a cryptic process involving raw binary became something humans could understand and use to create everything from spreadsheets to space programs. Hopper’s 1952 compiler didn’t just change programming, it changed the world.

The 3 laws of robotics, and why they’re in that order.

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in 1967 Larry Roberts presented his idea for an “ARPANet” for connecting multiple computers together across the United States. Full paper: https://bit.ly/3fJLY0l

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MIT researcher held up as model of how algorithms can benefit humanity MIT artificial intelligence researcher Regina Barzilay is the inaugural recipient of a new $1 million prize honoring work in AI.

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Algorithms control your online life. Here's how to reduce their influence. Don't want to let big tech companies decide what you see? Try these simple tricks.

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Cisco-challenge winners use AI, IoT to tackle global problems Top prize goes to a startup in Kenya with a milk-chilling transit system that uses AI and IoT to optimize inventory management.

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AutoML-Zero: Evolving Code that Learns Posted by Esteban Real, Staff Software Engineer, and Chen Liang, Software Engineer, Google Research, Brain Team Machine learning (ML) h...

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El matemático que soñaba con ordenadores en 1830 El 14 de junio de 1822 Charles Babbage anunció el diseño del primero de sus prototipos, que fueron considerados inútiles hasta mediados del siglo XX, cuando se entendió su valor revolucionario

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Facebook’s TransCoder AI converts code from one programming language into another Facebook's TransCoder AI model can translate among programming languages like Java, C++, and Python with high computational accuracy.

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John Nash, el Nobel que volvió de la esquizofrenia Escribía sin parar ecuaciones interminables de problemas irresolubles en pizarras de aulas sin alumnos. Buscaba en infinitas series de núme...

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Despite surges and sudden shifts in online traffic due to the current global crisis the internet is not collapsing! This is due in part to the original designers' vision of a global, interoperable network controlled by no central authority. Designers like Vinton G. Cerf, past president of ACM and a 2004 recipient, aimed to create a system resilient enough to remain operable after a nuclear attack by continuously calculating and recalculating the best data-transmission routes.

“You're seeing a success story right now,” said David D. Clark, an Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) computer scientist who worked on early Internet protocols. “If we didn't have the Internet, we'd be in an incredibly different place right now." Read more here, via Washington Post: wapo.st/2wpYdyr

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Bill Gates steps down from Microsoft’s board in historic milestone, 45 years after its founding Bill Gates is leaving Microsoft’s board, 45 years after co-founding the company with his childhood friend Paul Allen. In a news release, the company said Gates is stepping down “to dedicate more time…