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3 days ago | 
i-programmer.info | Sue Gee
Is concern over high unemployment rates among recently graduated Computer Science Majors justified. If so what are the factors?
Despite Computer cience being ranked as number one by the Princeton Review for college majors, once students graduate job prospects currently live up to expectations and they may well discover that the years spent gaining a degree were largely wasted.
The unemployment rate for recent college graduates in general is increasing.
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1 week ago | 
i-programmer.info | Sue Gee
Written by Sue Gee Ilias Diakonikolas, a professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, is the recipient of the 2024 ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award for his work in robust algorithms.
The ACM Grace Murray Hopper Award recognizes a single recent major technical or service contribution made by an individual aged 35 or younger. It isworth $35,000 and is funded by Microsoft.
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1 week ago | 
i-programmer.info | Sue Gee
Written by Sue Gee Sun Microsystems announced Java at the SunWorld '95 convention on May 23rd, 1995. At the time, Java was described as a programming language that, combined with the HotJava World Wide Web browser, offered the best universal operating system to the online community.
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2 weeks ago | 
i-programmer.info | Sue Gee
At Google I/O, Sundar Pichai, Demis Hassabis and others took to the stage to outline a long lineup of AI-powered products and services including Gemini 2.5, AI Mode in Search, which is already being rolled out in the United States and Projects Astra and Mariner.
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2 weeks ago | 
i-programmer.info | Sue Gee
Written by Sue Gee Day 1 of Microsoft Build 2025 was, as expected, an AI-focused event with Satya Nadella devoting much of the keynote to artificial intelligence agents giving us a picture of a future in which these agents perform tasks and make decisions on behalf of users and organization.
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2 weeks ago | 
i-programmer.info | Sue Gee
Written by Sue Gee This year the Free Software Foundation is marking its 40th Anniversary and is running a global online Hackathon open to everyone in the free software community. For projects interested in participating the deadline for submissions is May 29th.
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3 weeks ago | 
i-programmer.info | Sue Gee
Written by Sue Gee Apollo GraphQL has announced the Apollo MCP Server,
designed to connect GraphQL APIs to AI models such as Claude and ChatGPT using the Model Context Protocol (MCP).
As we have already reported, the Model Protocol Context (MCP) is an open protocol developed by Anthropic, which standardizes the interaction between clients and servers to enable seamless integration with LLMs and AI tools from a variety of programming languages.
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3 weeks ago | 
i-programmer.info | Sue Gee
Written by Sue Gee CodeRabbit, an AI-powered code review tool designed to automate the code review process is now integrated in VS Code, the first tool to deliver full-context reviews both in the IDE and in Git, helping teams catch bugs earlier and ship faster.
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3 weeks ago | 
i-programmer.info | Sue Gee
On May 12, 1941 Konrad Zuse completed his Z3 computer, the first program-controlled electromechanical digital computer. It followed in the footsteps of the Z1 - the world’s first binary digital computer which Zuse had developed in 1938 and its successor the Z2 the first relay-driven computer.
You may well never have heard of German computer pioneer Konrad Zuse, but he has a better claim than most to be the man who invented the programmable computer in the sense of actually building one.
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1 month ago | 
i-programmer.info | Sue Gee
Written by Sue Gee JetBrains is extending its non-commercial licensing model to CLion, its IDE for C and C++ development on Linux, OS X and Windows. This means that if you are using CLion for hobby development, open-source project development, or for learning the language you can now do so for free.
