Students from the Computing Department of Sheffield Hallam University on a recent visit to IBM. This included the first Women in IT event. Thanks to the IBM staff who are mentoring around 30 of our students and to Dr Andy Hirst, Teaching Fellow in Work Based Learning at Sheffield Hallam who organised the event.
Fragments: March 10
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Tech firm fined $1.1m by California for selling high-school students’ data
I agree with Brian Marick’s response
No such story should be published without...
Yes, AI is intelligent. Prove me wrong.
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It must be a sign of how terrified people are of Modern-AI, and running out
of arguments to decry it, that we now read and hear, ever more often,
pronoun...
Protecting your business in the age of ransomware
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Ransomware is hitting close to home for organizations of all sizes and
sectors. With attacks making headlines daily, it’s no surprise that 62% of
surveyed ...
The case for strong leadership in agile teams
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The key to scaling a software engineering organization is stable teams. A
while ago I wrote about the need to focus on stable, autonomous teams.
Teams wi...
The redesigned Racket blog
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*posted by Matthew Butterick*
I love Racket. But a few months ago, I really wanted to kill this blog.
Why? Because who reads blogs, right? It’s like get...
10 Things I Learnt about Life from Masterchef
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OK, I confess, I watch Masterchef, the television reality show and cookery
programme. We record them on the Sky box and if I need to mindlessly zone
out,...
Declarative versus Imperative
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I responded to a recent discussion Declarative vs imperative programming on
the Types mailing list, but my post was rejected because of a bad mail
header. ...
New Book Available
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The new book, DSL Engineering is now available. You can get the print
version as well as the PDF via dslbook.org. Have fun with the book and let
me know wh...
Debug Mode is the Only Mode
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There has been a fair amount of discussion recently surrounding some of
Bret Victor’s talks and blog posts. If you haven’t seen these, I recommend
them hi...