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Gerd Faltings wins the 2026 Abel Prize for solving some of mathematics’ deepest riddles

Mathematics often feels like a collection of isolated islands. Each one operates with its own rules, and building bridges between them is notoriously difficult. Today, the Norwegian Academy of Science ...
Scientific American

Can you solve these language puzzles? Test your skills with these problems from North America’s biggest linguistics competition

For 20 years, this computational linguistics competition has inspired new generations of innovators in AI and language ...

Q/C Technologies Launches Optical Processing Unit (OPU) Initiative to Develop Proprietary Silicon Photonic Computing Architecture for AI Inference

New initiative aimed at developing optical computing technologies to overcome the performance and energy limitations of traditional electronic ...

Astoria program gives students a front-row seat to firefighting

The firehouse smelled of engine oil and bleach. Boots lined the bay, hoses curled neatly on racks, and morning sunlight gleamed off polished trucks. Two young former interns moved through the station ...
TMCnet

Lehigh University Receives $10 Million Gift to Transform First-Year Engineering Education

Lehigh University announced a $10 million gift to create dedicated space within its historic Packard Laboratory to establish a home for the First-Year Rossin Engineering (FYRE) pr ...
InfoQ

QCon London 2026: The Hidden Power of Boring Problems

At QCon London 2026, Yinka Omole, Lead Software Engineer at Personio, presented a session exploring a recurring dilemma engineers face, whether to spend time mastering the newest technologies and ...