Programming News and Views

Microsoft has announced the sessions for Pure Virtual C++ 2024, which is taking place on April 30th 15:00 UTC. People who sign up will get access to five sessions happening on the day, alongside a range of pre-conference content. 

NVIDIA has jumped on the AI bandwagon in a big way. Hardware aside, this means working on training material too. Several self- paced courses have been released and for free too!

A new platform aimed at building and supporting an open artificial intelligence (AI) and data community has been launched.  The Open Platform for Enterprise AI (OPEA) was announced by The Linux Foundation AI & Data Foundation, with founding members including Intel, MariaDB Foundation, Red Hat, SAS and VMware.

ZLUDA is a translation layer that lets you run unmodified CUDA applications with near-native performance on AMD GPUs. But it is walking a fine line with regards to legality.

Published this week, the latest Stanford HAI AI Index report tracks worldwide trends in AI. A mix of its new research and findings from many other sources, it provides a wide ranging look at how AI is doing. 

The SIGBOVIK conference has just finished and its proceedings can be downloaded, but only at your peril. You might never see computer science in the same way ever again.

Israeli mathematician and computer scientist, Avi Wigderson, is the recipient of the 2023 ACM A.M Turing Award which carries a $1 million prize with financial support from Google.

Syncfusion has provided an in-browser environment where you can write, compile and run code that uses Blazor components and get it previewed live.

Apache Superset 4 has been released with improvements to the reporting module and redesigned alerts. Superset is a business intelligence web application. It is open source, provides data exploration and visualization, and was originally developed by Airbnb.

Google has introduced Jpegli, an advanced JPEG coding library that maintains high backward compatibility while offering enhanced capabilities and a 35% compression ratio improvement at high quality compression settings.

Alan Turing's ACE computer is a legendary computer that is particularly special for I Programmer - our account of it was the first ever history article on the site when it launched in 2009. Now this iconic machine is being rendered as a fully working virtual machine. Once it's complete we'll be able to interact with it.

This weekly digest is an extended version of the newsletter emailed to subscribers every Wednesday. As well as listing the week's news items, it also includes the latest Book Review and additions to Book Watch. Top of the list come the week's two feature articles, which this week are on JavaScript inheritance and tips for email security for applications.

Amazon has told developers who are signed up to the Alexa Developer Rewards Program that their monthly payments will end at the end of June. The announcement follows a decision to end the program under which Alexa developers were offered free credits for Amazon Web Services.

Udacity has just launched an hour-long course on Ethical AI. Intended for a wide audience across many industries, it introduces to basic concepts and terms needed to step into the world of Ethical AI. The new course is free for 30 days.

WinterJS is a brand new Javascript runtime by Wasmer which comes with the claim that it's the fastest of them all. Let's find out if that holds true.

Grafana Labs, creators of the Grafana open-source metrics analytics and visualization suite, has announced the preview release of Grafana 11 with improvements to make it easier to view metrics, and changes to the dashboard.