Computer scientist
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A computer scientist is a scientist who has acquired knowledge of computer science, the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their application in computer systems.Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computer systems, as opposed to the hardware side that computer engineers mainly focus on (although there is overlap). Although computer scientists can also focus their work and research on specific areas (such as algorithm development and design, software engineering, information theory, database theory, computational complexity theory, human-computer interaction, computer programming, programming language theory, computer graphics and computer vision), their foundation is the theoretical study of computing from which these other fields derive.
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Start-up bets on human translators over machines
Language does not come naturally to machines. The human edge in decoding what things mean is what a computer scientist turned entrepreneur, Luis von Ahn, is betting on. His start-up, Duolingo, which opened to the public on Tuesday, proposes to put armies of language learners to work translating content on the Web.
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Sir Tim Berners-Lee criticises the music industry
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the computer scientist who created the world wide web, has criticised the music industry for trying to stop the openness of the web.
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Ballmer Thinks You Have To Be A Computer Scientist To Use Android (MSFT, GOOG)
Steve Ballmer views the iPhone as the main competitor -- or perhaps inspiration -- to Windows Phone, but thinks Android is a threat on price only.
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Jonathan Stray: A computational journalism reading list
Journalist and computer scientist Jonathan Stray has posted an interesting breakdown of what he calls “computational journalism”, a kind of parent term for data journalism, visualisation, computational linguistics, communications technology, filtering, research and more.
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Jure Leskovec: How memes move, heartbeat-like, through the news
Every week, our friends at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society invite academics and other thinkers to discuss their work over lunch. Thankfully for us, they record the sessions. This week, we’re passing along some of the talks over the past few months that are most relevant to the future of news.
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