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Google gives its $1m Turing prize to, er, top Google bods: RISC men Hennessy, Patterson

The Register: The two engineers who further developed and popularized the concept of RISC microprocessors have won the 2017 ACM Turing Award. Professors John Hennessy and David Patterson were today…

Forgotten women in science: The Harvard Computers

Cosmos: The era of human computers didn’t begin with the West Computers or the Bletchleyettes. Toward the end of the 19th century, Harvard College Observatory drafted in dozens of women to take on one of the most unique mathematical computing…

The Nexus Linking IBM, California Wine, and Climate Modeling

IEEE Spectrum: This month, IBM announced the creation of a cloud-based geospatial information and analytics service. It’s designed to help people analyze big data sets comprising information such as satellite images, climate models, and tweets, or more localized data like feeds…

Google’s open-source neural synth is creating totally new sounds

Wired UK: What do you get when you cross a sitar, a marimba, a dog and a car? Allow Google’s neural synthesiser to play it to you, with hundreds of variations in timbre, pitch and tone. The company’s new plaything, known…