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Interesting Engineering

Ti Hua Ji: World’s earliest computer is a silk loom built in China 2000 years ago

The world's earliest computer was a silk loom built in China over two millennia ago, according to a claim made by China's ...

OpenAI reorganizes some teams to build audio-based AI hardware products

OpenAI, the company that developed the models and products associated with ChatGPT, plans to announce a new audio language ...
Carnegie Mellon University

Blending Humanistic Inquiry and Technology, Carnegie Mellon Leads a New Era of Cultural Study and Research

Carnegie Mellon University will introduce new academic programs and resources for students and researchers to blend traditional humanistic inquiry with computational methods like computer vision, ...
The Harvard Crimson

Federal Cuts Force Harvard Programs To Suspend Language Study Fellowships

When a judge ordered the Trump administration in September to restore Harvard’s federal funding, programs that received foreign language study grants through the Education Department breathed a sigh ...
FOX5 Las Vegas

Free Las Vegas pre-K program opens doors for Spanish-speaking families

Editor’s note: This story has been edited to include comment from the Clark County School District. LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — For Spanish-speaking families in the valley, finding affordable early education ...
PBS

Education Department offloads programs to other agencies as Trump accelerates plan for its closure

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Education Department is handing off some of its biggest grant programs to other federal agencies as the Trump administration accelerates its plan to shut down the department ...
IEEE

Empirical Evaluation of Large Language Models for Novice Program Fault Localization

Abstract: Integrating Large Language Models (LLMs) into software fault localization represents a significant advancement in improving debugging efficiency for programmers. However, novice program ...
Indiana Daily Student

IU’s Hungarian and Estonian language programs are unique. Now, their futures are unclear

Three students conversed in Estonian under fluorescent lights Monday in IU’s Global and International Studies Building. A fourth student from the University of Arkansas tuned in via Zoom.
Live Science

Science history: First computer-to-computer message lays the foundation for the internet, but it crashes halfway through — Oct. 29, 1969

Messages transmitted between two computers located about 380 miles apart would form the basis of what would become the internet. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...
Education Week

Dual-Language Programs Are Hobbled By a Catch-22

Which students benefit the most from dual-language programs? The answer, one educator says, is nuanced. “It isn’t that some English learners benefit, and native English speakers do not. It also ...
Chicago Sun-Times

Six schools getting Spanish programs as CPS seeks to eliminate ‘language deserts’

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