#computer science engineerings

[chitkaraengineering]

Elevate Your Expertise: The M.E. Fellowship Program in Computer Science & Engineering

In the dynamic realm of Computer Science and Engineering, staying ahead demands not only technical prowess but also a commitment to continual learning and innovation. The Master of Engineering (M.E.) The Fellowship Program in Computer Science & Engineering stands as a beacon for aspiring engineers and tech enthusiasts, offering a transformative journey that goes beyond conventional education. In this blog, we'll delve into the intricacies of this fellowship, exploring its unique features, the immersive curriculum, and the unparalleled opportunities it presents to shape the future of computer science.

I. Bridging Theory and Innovation: The Immersive Curriculum

At the core of the M.E. Fellowship Program is a curriculum designed to bridge the gap between theoretical knowledge and real-world application. Courses are meticulously crafted to provide a deep understanding of foundational concepts while exposing students to cutting-edge technologies and industry best practices. From artificial intelligence and machine learning to software engineering and cybersecurity, participants engage with a comprehensive spectrum of topics that form the backbone of modern computer science and engineering.

II. Research Opportunities: Shaping the Future

One of the hallmarks of the M.E. Fellowship Program is its emphasis on research. Participants have the unique opportunity to collaborate with renowned faculty members on groundbreaking projects that address contemporary challenges in the field. This hands-on research experience not only enriches their academic journey but also equips them with the skills needed to contribute to the forefront of technological innovation.

III. Industry Integration: Navigating the Professional Landscape

The fellowship program goes beyond traditional academic boundaries by fostering strong ties with industry leaders. Guest lectures, industry-sponsored projects, and internships provide participants with real-world insights and the chance to apply their knowledge in practical settings. This integration with industry not only enhances their skill set but also ensures that graduates are well-prepared to navigate the rapidly evolving professional landscape.

IV. Mentorship: Guiding the Next Generation

An invaluable aspect of the M.E. Fellowship Program is the mentorship provided by experienced professionals and academics. Participants benefit from personalized guidance, career advice, and a network of mentors who are invested in their success. This mentorship not only nurtures academic growth but also helps participants develop a holistic understanding of the industry and their potential role within it.

V. Collaborative Learning Environment: A Cohort of Innovators

The program fosters a collaborative learning environment where participants engage with a diverse cohort of like-minded individuals. The exchange of ideas, perspectives, and experiences enhances the learning journey, providing a rich tapestry of insights that reflects the global nature of the technology landscape.

VI. Entrepreneurial Opportunities: From Concept to Creation

Recognizing the increasing role of entrepreneurship in the tech industry, the M.E. Fellowship Program encourages participants to explore their entrepreneurial spirit. From incubators and startup accelerators to mentorship programs for budding entrepreneurs, the fellowship provides a supportive ecosystem for those looking to turn their innovative ideas into viable ventures.

VII. Global Perspectives: A Window to the World

In an interconnected world, the M.E. Fellowship Program offers a global perspective. Collaborations with international institutions, exchange programs, and a curriculum that addresses global challenges ensure that participants are well-equipped to contribute on the international stage. This exposure not only broadens their horizons but also prepares them to work in diverse and multicultural environments.

VIII. Holistic Development: Beyond Technical Skills

While technical skills are paramount, the M.E. Fellowship Program recognizes the importance of holistic development. Soft skills, leadership training, and a focus on ethical considerations in technology ensure that participants emerge not only as skilled engineers but also as responsible and well-rounded professionals.

IX. Building a Community: Lifelong Connections

The fellowship program isn't just about acquiring knowledge; it's about building lifelong connections. Alumni networks, industry events, and collaborative projects create a sense of community that extends beyond the duration of the program. These connections serve as a resource for continued learning, mentorship, and professional opportunities throughout participants' careers.

X. Conclusion: Shaping the Future of Computer Science & Engineering

In conclusion, the M.E. The Fellowship Program in Computer Science & Engineering is not merely a stepping stone in one's academic journey; it is a transformative experience that shapes the future of technology and innovation. By offering a curriculum that balances theory with practice, research opportunities that push the boundaries of knowledge, and a supportive ecosystem that nurtures entrepreneurial spirit, this fellowship stands as a testament to the ever-evolving landscape of computer science and engineering. For those aspiring to elevate their expertise and contribute to the forefront of technological advancement, the M.E. The Fellowship Program is a gateway to unparalleled opportunities and a future shaped by innovation and excellence.

[theftmprogrammer]

i think computer science and computer engineering majors should take an ethics class. not that it will fix everything but i think more of my peers need to understand how their actions have consequences. i think having more ethics discussed in the compsci academic space in general is essential.

[thewinastudyblog]

some advice i have for future computer science students

as soon as you learn data structures & complexity, run, don’t just walk, RUN to leetcode while the knowledge is still fresh in your mind. your entire career and whether you’ll get a well-paying job vs an average paying job depends on how good you are at leetcode.

build as many projects as you can, and i’m not talking tutorial projects that take a few hours, i’m talking big projects. working on a project for a month or two will get you really far.

if you don’t have an internship, do not waste your summers, learn new technologies, languages, concepts and build projects you can put in your cv.

try to participate in hackathons and coding competitions. it’s okay if you fail, but you’ll learn a lot.

learn how to read documentation. most tutorials don’t even cover a quarter of what a language, framework or software has to offer. the sooner you make reading documentation a habit, the better it is. and yes i know, documentation is long and hard to read. my advice is only read the sections that are relevant to you in the moment. something i also personally do is look at the code examples at the same time as i am reading the paragraphs, it really helps easily absorb the information.

try not to use chatgpt. and if you do, then at least use it for stuff you know you can do yourself and will be able to correct if the bot gets it wrong. using chatgpt is a very slippery slope and the more you use it the less you learn.

the math is important. math teaches you how to reason and how to develop better logical thinking. just because you don’t see yourself using the xyz theorem you’ve learnt anytime in the future doesn’t mean the math is useless.

be prepared to get comfortable with erros, issues, bugs and just problems in general. you’ll be coding 30% of the time and debugging 70% of the time (i’m exaggerating but sometimes it feels like this is the case lol), and that’s okay, it’s how we learn and the sooner you embrace it the better. if you’re someone who easily gets frustrated, then this is a heads up.

learn as you go. there is no such thing as waiting until you know everything before you start on a project. the only way and the best way to learn in this field is practice, so build, build, and build.

these are all the ones i could think of for now. feel free to comment your thoughts and questions <3

[viridianriver]

'Artificial Intelligence' Tech - Not Intelligent as in Smart - Intelligence as in 'Intelligence Agency'

I work in tech, hell my last email ended in '.ai' and I used to HATE the term Artificial Intelligence. It's computer vision, it's machine learning, I'd always argue.

Lately, I've changed my mind. Artificial Intelligence is a perfectly descriptive word for what has been created. As long as you take the word 'Intelligence' to refer to data that an intelligence agency or other interested party may collect.

But I'm getting ahead of myself. Back when I was in 'AI' - the vibe was just odd. Investors were throwing money at it as fast as they could take out loans to do so. All the while, engineers were sounding the alarm that 'AI' is really just a fancy statistical tool and won't ever become truly smart let alone conscious. The investors, baffingly, did the equivalent of putting their fingers in their ears while screaming 'LALALA I CAN'T HEAR YOU"

Meanwhile, CEOs were making all sorts of wild promises about what AI will end up doing, promises that mainly served to stress out the engineers. Who still couldn't figure out why the hell we were making this silly overhyped shit anyway.

SYSTEMS THINKING

As Stafford Beer said, 'The Purpose of A System is What It Does" - basically meaning that if a system is created, and maintained, and continues to serve a purpose? You can read the intended purpose from the function of a system. (This kind of thinking can be applied everywhere - for example the penal system. Perhaps, the purpose of that system is to do what it does - provide an institutional structure for enslavement / convict-leasing?)

So, let's ask ourselves, what does AI do? Since there are so many things out there calling themselves AI, I'm going to start with one example. Microsoft Copilot.

Microsoft is selling PCs with integrated AI which, among other things, frequently screenshots and saves images of your activity. It doesn't protect against copying passwords or sensitive data, and it comes enabled by default. Now, my old-ass-self has a word for that. Spyware. It's a word that's fallen out of fashion, but I think it ought to make a comeback.

To take a high-level view of the function of the system as implemented, I would say it surveils, and surveils without consent. And to apply our systems thinking? Perhaps its purpose is just that.

SOCIOLOGY

There's another principle I want to introduce - that an institution holds insitutional knowledge. But it also holds institutional ignorance. The shit that for the sake of its continued existence, it cannot know.

For a concrete example, my health insurance company didn't know that my birth control pills are classified as a contraceptive. After reading the insurance adjuster the Wikipedia articles on birth control, contraceptives, and on my particular medication, he still did not know whether my birth control was a contraceptive. (Clearly, he did know - as an individual - but in his role as a representative of an institution - he was incapable of knowing - no matter how clearly I explained)

So - I bring this up just to say we shouldn't take the stated purpose of AI at face value. Because sometimes, an institutional lack of knowledge is deliberate.

HISTORY OF INTELLIGENCE AGENCIES

The first formalized intelligence agency was the British Secret Service, founded in 1909. Spying and intelligence gathering had always been a part of warfare, but the structures became much more formalized into intelligence agencies as we know them today during WW1 and WW2.

Now, they're a staple of statecraft. America has one, Russia has one, China has one, this post would become very long if I continued like this...

I first came across the term 'Cyber War' in a dusty old aircraft hanger, looking at a cold-war spy plane. There was an old plaque hung up, making reference to the 'Upcoming Cyber War' that appeared to have been printed in the 80s or 90s. I thought it was silly at the time, it sounded like some shit out of sci-fi.

My mind has changed on that too - in time. Intelligence has become central to warfare; and you can see that in the technologies military powers invest in. Mapping and global positioning systems, signals-intelligence, of both analogue and digital communication.

Artificial intelligence, as implemented would be hugely useful to intelligence agencies. A large-scale statistical analysis tool that excels as image recognition, text-parsing and analysis, and classification of all sorts? In the hands of agencies which already reportedly have access to all of our digital data?

TIKTOK, CHINA, AND AMERICA

I was confused for some time about the reason Tiktok was getting threatened with a forced sale to an American company. They said it was surveiling us, but when I poked through DNS logs, I found that it was behaving near-identically to Facebook/Meta, Twitter, Google, and other companies that weren't getting the same heat.

And I think the reason is intelligence. It's not that the American government doesn't want me to be spied on, classified, and quantified by corporations. It's that they don't want China stepping on their cyber-turf.

The cyber-war is here y'all. Data, in my opinion, has become as geopolitically important as oil, as land, as air or sea dominance. Perhaps even more so.

A CASE STUDY : ELON MUSK

As much smack as I talk about this man - credit where it's due. He understands the role of artificial intelligence, the true role. Not as intelligence in its own right, but intelligence about us.

In buying Twitter, he gained access to a vast trove of intelligence. Intelligence which he used to segment the population of America - and manpulate us.

He used data analytics and targeted advertising to profile American voters ahead of this most recent election, and propogandize us with micro-targeted disinformation. Telling Israel's supporters that Harris was for Palestine, telling Palestine's supporters she was for Israel, and explicitly contradicting his own messaging in the process. And that's just one example out of a much vaster disinformation campaign.

He bought Trump the white house, not by illegally buying votes, but by exploiting the failure of our legal system to keep pace with new technology. He bought our source of communication, and turned it into a personal source of intelligence - for his own ends. (Or... Putin's?)

This, in my mind, is what AI was for all along.

CONCLUSION

AI is a tool that doesn't seem to be made for us. It seems more fit-for-purpose as a tool of intelligence agencies, oligarchs, and police forces. (my nightmare buddy-cop comedy cast) It is a tool to collect, quantify, and loop-back on intelligence about us.

A friend told me recently that he wondered sometimes if the movie 'The Matrix' was real and we were all in it. I laughed him off just like I did with the idea of a cyber war.

Well, I re watched that old movie, and I was again proven wrong. We're in the matrix, the cyber-war is here. And know it or not, you're a cog in the cyber-war machine.

(edit -- part 2 - with the 'how' - is here!)

[secondaryartifacts]

[cyanogen-miasma]

nerd fight

my money's on geologist or engineer but I'm the one making the poll so I can't vote

feel free to reblog with reasons why you think your chosen STEM nerd would win in a fight against all the others

edit: for some reason I can vote

[anonymousdormhacks]

Whats the opposite of gothic? I'm in love with comp sci anti-gothic where it's just people being surprisingly polite and nice and funny through computers. A program's first lines are always "Hello world!". SMTP protocols apparently say "hello, pleased to meet you" to each other to establish a connection with a handshake. Python has a different version called Andaconda, which has a smaller version called miniconda. C++ is just C continuously improving on itself, because the ++ operator means to add one onto a previous value, and C# is two ++ stacked on top of each other. Lawmakers have to talk about the ethics of saving "cookies" to computers because one guy liked fortune cookies and decided to call them that. The internet itself wasn't created with security in mind because it was just meant to be a way for a group of people who trusted each other using it to send each other information, and so on, and so forth

[rains-and-rainbows]

linkedin kholte hi anxiety hone lagti hai

[quizzicalbr0wsblog]

i’ve been doing sooo many practice exams istg if i don’t get a good grade- 😀

[omeletcat]

i got an old laptop from my grandpa and was googling about it, and the wikipedia page for the micro-soft acer aspire has an image of the acer aspire with the wikipedia page, containing the image of the acer aspire with the wikipedia page, containing the image of the acer aspire with the wikipedia page, containing the image of the acer aspire with the wikipedia page, containing the image of the acer aspire with the wikipedia page, containing the image of the acer aspire with the wikipedia page, containing the image of the acer aspire with the wikipedia page....

[gentlewareblooming]

I've been having a hard time with programming lately. Considering that it is my job i kind of need to get it together.

My plan is to start learning stuff that isn't just the only thing I need for my current project. Try to find things about programming and computer science that interest me and maybe talk about it on this blog. I think I need to expand my curiosity about the subject.

I have all these hang ups about feeling stupid and incompetent and how hard everything is, but I need to reframe it. Yes, it doesn't come as easily to me as to others, but that's ok because I'm capable and I can put in the effort to do and learn the hard thing. And I know that at the end it will be totally worth it.

[sauce-central]

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[thewinastudyblog]

this weekend summarised in one picture. hope this pays off tomorrow during the technical interview. but honestly, even if i don’t pass, i’m still going to be so proud of myself because the old me could’ve never been able to do all of this in one weekend.

[blondebrainpowered]

Watercolour portrait of Ada King, Countess of Lovelace also known as Ada Lovelace, ca. 1840, possibly by Alfred Edward Chalon.

Ada Lovelace, is celebrated as the first computer programmer. In the early 19th century, she wrote detailed notes on Charles Babbage’s Analytical Engine, a pioneering mechanical computer.

Among these notes was an algorithm designed to compute Bernoulli numbers, which is recognized as the first published computer program. At a time when computing was an uncharted territory, Lovelace envisioned the potential of machines to perform complex tasks beyond basic arithmetic.

Her foresight and contributions laid the groundwork for modern computer science.

She was also the daughter of the poet Lord Byron.

[doctor-disc0]

I want so badly for there to be a mod that lets me play as an alfiq. In literally any tes game. Please. I've looked everywhere and I can't find it. I know that it's probably hard to make the player character quadrupedal but dammit I think it would be so funny for a Dragonborn or the Nerevarine or the Eternal Champion or literally just any of the player characters in TES to be a little alfiq khajiit.

If I can't find any mods, I may have to learn how to mod for the sole purpose of making it possible to play as an alfiq.

If anyone knows of any mods that let you play as an alfiq (in any of the tes games), let me know. And if you don't know of any, and you happen to know a bit about modding, if you could send me some beginner's modding resources, that would be great (I have no idea how to even begin to learn to mod lol)

[noosphe-re]

Researchers propose source mask optimization technique in computational lithography, by Zhang Nannan, Chinese Academy of Sciences