Left: MIT computer scientist Katie Bouman w/stacks of hard drives of black hole image data.
Right: MIT computer scientist Margaret Hamilton w/the code she wrote that helped put a man on the moon.
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#EHTblackhole
#BlackHoleDay
#BlackHole
3 years ago MIT grad student Katie Bouman led the creation of a new algorithm to produce the first-ever image of a black hole.
Today, that image was released.
More info:
2016 story:
#EHTblackhole
#EventHorizonTelescope
#otd
in 1977 Bill Gates was arrested in NM for a traffic violation.
He used the silhouette of his mugshot as the default profile pic for Microsoft Outlook 2010.
MIT offers free video lectures and online materials from more than 2,400 courses, including intro classes in computer science, AI and algorithms.
Browse our open CS courses here:
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Left: MIT computer scientist Katie Bouman with the stacks of hard drives containing data of the first image of a black hole.
Right: MIT computer scientist Margaret Hamilton with the code her team wrote that put a man on the moon.
#BlackHoleWeek
#BlackHole
#WomenInSTEM
MIT’s “Introduction to Algorithms,” published
#otd
in 1990, is the world’s most cited CS text, with 9K citations & half a million copies sold.
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@mitpress
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2014: MIT professor Regina Barzilay is diagnosed with breast cancer.
2017: she develops an ML model that could have diagnosed her cancer years in advance.
Today: she is announced as the first winner of a $1m award for her work.
More:
Free MIT videos & online materials from more than 2,400 courses, including intro classes in computer science, AI and algorithms.
Browse our open CS courses here:
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@MITOCW
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This MIT CS class teaches you things that all the other classes don't teach you, like...
🖥️ Shell tools and scripting
🖥️ Vim
🖥️ Data wrangling
🖥️ Command-line environment
🖥️ Version control
Watch all 11 lectures for free here:
MIT’s “Introduction to Algorithms,” published
#otd
in 1990, is the world’s most cited CS text, with 67K citations & over a million copies sold.
@mitpress
Happy birthday to professor Katie Bouman! As a PhD student at MIT she was part of the team that helped create the first-ever image of a black hole.
#WomenInScience
When programming languages were created:
1957: Fortran
1958: LISP
1964: BASIC
1972: C
1978: SQL
1980: C++
1991: Python
1993: R
1995: PHP, Java & JS
2001: C#
2009: Go
2014: Swift
MIT researchers found that massive neural nets (e.g. large language models) are capable of storing and simulating other neural networks inside their hidden layers, which enables LLM to adapt to a new task without external training:
With
#BTS
trending globally, we thought we'd clarify what the term means.
A base transceiver station (BTS) is a piece of equipment that enables wireless comms between computers & networks (i.e.
#WiFi
,
#LTE
, etc.)
Here's the full
#FilmOut
of
@telcoma
:
This MIT CS class teaches you things that all the other classes don't teach you, like...
🖥️ Shell tools and scripting
🖥️ Vim
🖥️ Data wrangling
🖥️ Command-line environment
🖥️ Version control
Watch all 11 lectures for free here:
Happy birthday to the late Sister Mary Keller, who helped develop
#Basic
& in 1965 was the first woman to earn a computer science PhD in the US:
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@mental_floss
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BREAKING: MIT and Harvard just filed suit against ICE and the DHS seeking to reverse their ban on international students being able to stay in the US while taking classes remotely.
Full complaint:
Tech birthdays in 2022:
Lyft: 10 years
Snapchat: 11 years
Uber: 13 years
Twitter: 16 years
Facebook: 18 years
Tesla: 19 years
Google: 24 years
Mozilla: 24 years
Netflix: 26 years
Amazon: 28 years
Apple: 46 years
Microsoft: 47 years
Intel: 54 years
HP: 83 years
IBM: 111 years
#otd
in 2019 scientists released the first-ever photo of a black hole.
Here’s the moment that Prof. Katie Bouman and colleagues first processed the image.
"Students shouldn't go out into life without the ability to communicate.
Your success in life will be determined largely by...
-your ability to speak,
-your ability to write, &
-the quality of your ideas,
**in that order**."
-Late MIT Prof. Patrick Winston
MIT researchers taught a robot dog to perceive a 3D world using Neural Volumetric Memory (NVM).
This technique lets the bot climb stairs, step over gaps & run autonomously w/a single neural network.
Paper:
Video:
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@UCSanDiego
RIP to computing pioneer Larry Tesler, the inventor of copy-paste.
RIP to computing pioneer Larry Tesler, the inventor of copy-paste.
RIP to computing pioneer Larry Tesler, the inventor of copy-paste.
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