Professor, Computer Science, University of Minnesota @UMNComputerSci, Extensible Programming Languages, He/His.
Minneapolis, MN
Joined October 2009
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Big news @UMNComputerSci - we no longer require - nor accept - GRE scores on graduate applications! If you're interested in programming languages please get in contact. Also here are Gopalan Nadathur and Favonia. Lots of fun and exciting things happening.
RT @semihsalihoglu: Two recent PhD admits to @UWaterloo were recently killed in Gaza. Their names were Sally and Dalia. To honor Sally and…
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Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey's Assault on Academic Freedom Harms Us All. umn-tc-aaup.org/statement-on…. @mayorfrey @umnews @umncla
So, I'm @ericvanwyk.bsky.social over on Bluesky. Time to say goodbye here. Noticeably more content on Bluesky this week. It feels real this time. theguardian.com/technology/2…
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The University of Washington CS school is an unsafe environment for women, so as grad application season starts, please tell your students not to apply. There are at least 3 men in the systems lab that have sexually harassed numerous women and they continue to do so.
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A Cornell Graduate Student Faces Deportation After a Pro-Palestine Action
Momodou Taal, who is attending the university with a F-1 visa, was suspended after a September 18 protest under a new policy seeking to quash Gaza solidarity actions.
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Call for Participation for the 17th SLE
October 20-21, 2024
Pasadena, California, United States
2024.splashcon.org/attending…
2024.splashcon.org/track/sle…
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"The productivity myth suggests that anything we spend time on is up for automation[...]The goal of writing, this myth suggests, is filling a page rather than the process of thought that a completed page represents."-@ErykSalvaggio
techpolicy.press/challenging…
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Sorry I was MIA. Was changing the syllabus of my postcolonial drama class to include how the British made some great points, and drew most excellent borders in Kenya, Nigeria and India
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Tempted to make a bingo card for all the male researchers (and other men famous for their association with "AI") the phrase "stochastic parrots" gets attributed to.
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If you include the tens of billions of dollars of aid, too, we’re talking about two Manhattan Projects worth of weapons to slaughter a native population trapped in a reservation.
BREAKING: US approves $20 billion in weapons sales to Israel amid threat of wider Middle East war apnews.com/article/israel-ga…
Eric Van Wyk (@ericvanwyk on BlueSky) retweeted
I just cancelled my Adobe licence after many years as a customer.
The new terms give Adobe "worldwide royalty-free licence to reproduce, display, distribute" or do whatever they want with any content I produce using their software.
This is beyond insane. No creator in their right mind can accept this .
You pay a huge monthly subscription and they want to own your content and your entire business as well.
Going to have to learn some new tools.
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Wrote a poem. Got published in @ieeesoftware 🤪😎
(Proof: ieeexplore.ieee.org/iel7/52/…) #software #polyglot #programming #poem
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Google AI overview suggests adding glue to get cheese to stick to pizza, and it turns out the source is an 11 year old Reddit comment from user F*cksmith 😂
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This should be every moment of his remaining life.
"HIND RAJAB WAS 6 YEARS OLD WHEN ISRAELIS KILLED HER! YOU WILL BE REMEMBERED AS THE BUTCHER OF GAZA!"
Mohamad Habehh of @AMPalestine confronts @SecBlinken as he testifies to Congress right now:
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Reeling from these disciplinary letters, faculty members at @BrownUniversity say administrators are threatening their academic freedom. Many have doubled down on calls for the school to adopt a more expansive model of shared faculty governance.
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Some tenured faculty members at @BrownUniversity are being threatened with vague disciplinary action after having visited the encampments. They received this email from the Dean of Faculty. I’ve confirmed at least 2, but there are at least 2 more I am hearing about beyond that.
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The Call for Papers for the 17th ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE'24) is out!
🔗Check it out here: 2024.splashcon.org/home/sle-…
📆Submission deadlines:
- Abstract: June 14, 2024
- Paper: June 24, 2024
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Needing a Blackboard plugin that uses generative AI to make my written feedback sound a little less like Larry David having a breakdown.
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Gaza’s universities embodied the ambitions of young Palestinians.
In weeks, the Israeli military destroyed them.
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