Mastodawn

The difference between Scientists and Computer Scientists:
#Scientist: "Why does this work?"
#ComputerScientist: "Why doesn't this work?"

OccuWorld Apr 1

FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/03/computer-scientist-goes-silent-after-fbi-raid-and-purging-from-university-website/

Indiana University quietly removes profile of tenured professor and refuses to say why.

#IndianaU #XiaofengWang #Disappeared #ComputerScientist #TenuredProfessor #USA

FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado

Indiana University quietly removes profile of tenured professor and refuses to say why.

Ars Technica

Regina Kammer Mar 31

FBI raids home of prominent #ComputerScientist who has gone incommunicado
Indiana #University quietly removes profile of tenured #professor and refuses to say why.
Xiaofeng Wang was the associate dean for research at Indiana University's Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/03/computer-scientist-goes-silent-after-fbi-raid-and-purging-from-university-website/

FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado

Indiana University quietly removes profile of tenured professor and refuses to say why.

Ars Technica

Hacker News Mar 30

FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/03/computer-scientist-goes-silent-after-fbi-raid-and-purging-from-university-website/

#HackerNews #FBI #Raid #ComputerScientist #Incommunicado #SecurityNews

FBI raids home of prominent computer scientist who has gone incommunicado

Indiana University quietly removes profile of tenured professor and refuses to say why.

Ars Technica

Zorz Studios Mar 24

#USCourtOfAppeals unanimously denies #CopyrightProtection for #AICreated images https://zorz.it/pnQPe | #KenKlein #AI #copyright #DrStephenThaler #ComputerScientist #FederalCourt #law

US Court of Appeals Unanimously Denies Copyright Protection for AI-Created Images

No copyright protection for solely AI-generated work.

PetaPixel

David Grayless Jan 24

#OnThisDay in 2016, #MarvinMinsky, American artificial intelligence #computerscientist (MIT), died at 88. 🕊️
#RIP

David Grayless Jan 1

#OnThisDay in 1992, #GraceHopper, American #computerscientist and US Navy #admiral who invented the first compiler for a universal computer programming language and is credited with coining the phrase 'debugging’, died at 85. 🪦
#RIP

Ele Willoughby, PhD Dec 9

Bonus #artAdventCalendar: Happy birthday to #mathematician & #computerscientist US Navy rear admiral Grace Hopper (1906-1992) who popularized the revolutionary idea of developing machine-independent programming languages based on English.

She began teaching at Vassar in 31 & got PhD (Yale) in 34. She found marriage & teaching less fulfilling & tried to enlist in the Navy, but was rejected then got a special exemption to volunteer for 🧵1/n

#printmaking #womenInSTEM #histsci #MastoArt