KTAR

Mesa Community College offering AI intro, programming courses in spring

Mesa Community College announced it will offer two AI-focused courses that don't require any prerequisites in spring 2026.

Kristen Stewart Called Out Hollywood. Minutes Later, Netflix Announced a Deal to Buy It.

Kristen Stewart’s fiery IndieWire Honors speech collided with news of the Netflix–WB merger, raising fresh fears about what ...

JavaScript turns 30: From 10-day prototype to the backbone of the modern web

Thirty years ago, Netscape and Sun Microsystems introduced JavaScript as a new, cross-platform scripting language for ...
Communications of the ACM

Program Comprehension as a Central Skill in CS Education in the Era of Generative AI

In the GenAI era, program comprehension is not just another skill in the toolbox; it is the toolbox itself. It enables learners to move beyond passive acceptance of AI outputs, guiding them to ...

In 1995, a Netscape employee wrote a hack in 10 days that now runs the Internet

“Bill Gates was bitching about us changing JS all the time,” Eich later recalled of the fall of 1996. Microsoft created its ...
Inside Higher Ed

First-Year Program Teaches Students Executive Functioning Skills

A four-week early-college program at the University of Mary Washington helps students organize their schedules and use tech tools to stay on top of deadlines.
Tech Xplore

Open-source framework enables addition of AI to software without prompt engineering

Developers can now integrate large language models directly into their existing software using a single line of code, with no ...
SciELO

Solving the unit commitment problem of hydropower plants via Lagrangian Relaxation and Sequential Quadratic Programming

We consider the optimal scheduling of hydropower plants in a hydrothermal interconnected system. This problem, of outmost importance for large-scale power systems with a high proportion of hydraulic ...