To my #CS #professor friends on MathsTodon.xyz: what #programming languages are you teaching as the "proper first language" to your freshmen, and what are the delights and dismays thereof?

Some 30y ago, I taught C and ML to the CS undergrads—my two favourite classic languages. But, boy, they were a handful to teach to novices. But then, you lot might well have an easier task now, given that a typical CS freshman today knows several languages already (at least #Python and/or #JavaScript), by the time they enter the uni.

#Cybersecurity #Professor Mysteriously Disappears as #FBI Raids His Homes

#XiaofengWang, a longtime computer science professor at #IndianaUniversity , has disappeared along with his wife, and their profiles on the school's website were wiped ahead of recent FBI raids.

https://www.wired.com/story/cybersecurity-professor-mysteriously-disappears-as-fbi-raids-his-homes/

This story is really worrying and concerning.

"Xiaofeng Wang, a longtime computer science professor at Indiana University, has disappeared along with his wife, and their profiles on the school's website were wiped ahead of recent FBI raids."

#news #tech #press #computer #professor #university #IndianaUniversity #usa #USnews

https://www.wired.com/story/cybersecurity-professor-mysteriously-disappears-as-fbi-raids-his-homes/

“My PhD was all about understanding what happens to blood flow in collapsible blood vessels like the giraffe jugular vein. In my postdoc I was investigating how to optimise ventilator settings for patients in ICU and then how to deliver inhaled therapies into the lungs. Since then, my focus has been in trying to understand how diseases like Asthma and other respiratory diseases originate and then progress. This involves incorporating biology and physics into mathematical and computational models, using approaches from different areas of applied maths. More recently I have started to look into the mechanisms that could lead to a rare lung disease called lymphangioleiomyomatosis (LAM) and Long Covid.” - Bindi Brook

https://hermathsstory.eu/bindi-brook/

This week, we spoke to Prof. Shimon Schocken about teaching computer science from NAND logic gates to arithmetic units, micro assembly, virtual machines, compilers, operating systems, and the Tetris games among other things.

Join us on the show here: https://embedded.fm/episodes/496.

Here's Prof. Schocken on the importance of hardwork in getting to the depth of concepts:

This week, we spoke to Prof. Shimon Schocken about teaching computer science from NAND logic gates to arithmetic units, micro assembly, virtual machines, compilers, operating systems, and the Tetris games among other things.

Join us on the show here: https://embedded.fm/episodes/496.

Here's an excerpt from the show:

Chris( @stoneymonster ) and Elecia( @logicalelegance ) are joined by Prof. Shimon Schocken to discuss teaching computer science from NAND logic gates to arithmetic units, compilers and operating systems.

The transcript for the show is available now at https://embedded.fm/transcripts/496.

Feel free to share your favorite quotes from the show!
#professor #teaching #author #software #hardware #engineering #embedded

The Lamarr Institute in Bonn, Germany has an opening for a full professorship in artificial intelligence and machine learning!

https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/university/working-at-the-university/job-opportunities/vacancies-1/full-professorship-w3-in-artificial-intelligence-and-machine-learning

An updated #Introduction for 2025:

I’m a mom, #cat whisperer, #maker, avid #reader, #gamer, and #dice goblin. I’m a #chemistry #professor and #education #researcher. I love #traveling, #cooking, #photography, #tattoos and #3Dprinting. Ich spreche und lese etwas Deutsch. I use #Mac and #Linux machines and bought a mechanical keyboard for my birthday. I love #DnD and my #SteamDeck. #Masotodon is my primary social media and I love it here.

I contain multitudes. So do you.

Prof. Shimon Schocken spoke with us about teaching computer science from NAND logic gates to arithmetic units, micro assembly, virtual machines, compilers, operating systems, and the Tetris games among other things.

Join us on the show here: https://embedded.fm/episodes/496

https://www.europesays.com/1889552/ SEMO political science professor uses Congressional address as a lesson #address #america #congress #Heartland #JamesNewman #News #political #Politics #PresidentDonaldTrump #Professor #science #SEMO #SoutheastMissouriStateUniversity #Students #technology #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USA #WhiteHouse

I love the enthusiasm, the child-like wonder, the giddiness of explaining complex ideas in simple terms that #BrianCox has. Could listen to him talk about the #universe all day.

Ohio's universities might be gutted at this point. That's a lot of people.

https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/02/12/ohio-senate-passes-higher-ed-overhaul-bill-less-than-a-day-after-eight-hours-of-opponent-testimony/

Prof. Dr. M. Alessandra Papa leads the permanent independent @maxplanckgesellschaft research group “Continuous Gravitational Waves” and is a professor for Gravitational-wave Astronomy at @unihannover.

Her research goal is to study gravitational waves from rapidly spinning neutron stars.

https://www.aei.mpg.de/305689/m-alessandra-papa

#Blog KW 7: Erneute #Lehrtätigkeit trotz #NS-#Vergangenheit? Urgeschichtsprofessor Gustav Rieks #Wiedereinsetzung trotz Mitgliedschaft und Tätigkeit in der SS zeugt von internen #Machtkämpfen sowie von gesellschaftlicher „Reinwaschung“ durch Sympathie:

https://www.historischer-augenblick.de/gustav-riek/

#Geschichte #History #Historiker @histodons #Lehre #Professor #Aufarbeitung #Universität #Tübingen #Uni

Interesting perspective, but I’m not sure where we go next if we start here.
#Professor says Canada should block U.S. ambassador while Trump talks annexation - The Canadian Press https://apple.news/ATthVy6TJTUi1qpphwELHdg

Prof. Dr. Michèle Heurs is a professor of experimental physics at @unihannover and leads the “Quantum Control” group.

She works in the field of quantum optics, in particular in non-classical laser interferometry, quantum metrology, and quantum opto-mechanics. Her group works on making (laser) light that is better than nature would like you to be able to have. It’s called „squeezed light“, and the group uses it for precision measurements. They exploit the Heisenberg uncertainty principle to reduce the noise in the measurement quantity they’re interested in, at the cost of increasing the noise in another (uninteresting one). This allows them to increase the precision of measurements to below the quantum level.

Examples of such sensitive measurements are gravitational-wave detection, where quantum noise already limits the measurement sensitivity over much of the detection band, but also applications in ultra-high precision spectroscopy, and quantum information, amongst others.

https://www.aei.mpg.de/305873/michele-heurs