Working with lower level data is very much part of graphics. This extract from Ian Elliot's book on JavaScript Graphics looks at how to use typed arrays to access graphic data.

At I Programmer we continue to monitor Java's status closely. Here's what we've recorded throughout 2023.

Before large language models became flavor of the year, convolutional networks were the hit. They solved the problem of computer vision, but they also introduced a new problem - adversarial images - which made them look silly and very, very, unhuman-like.

The funds come from the U.S. Dept. of Education for a 5-year program to create an engaging, game-based, middle school Computer Science course using Microsoft Minecraft. It is intended to reach 3,450 middle schoolers (6th-8th grades) in New York and California.

Oracle says its its first Oracle Database @ Azure service is now generally available. Oracle Exadata Database Service is the first of several planned Oracle database services to run on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) in Azure data centers.

Towards the end of 2023 Turbo Pascal turned 40 and prompted many of us to remember it as one of the breakthoughs in programming languages. As a compiler combined with an IDE, Borland brought out a product that was both affordable and fast.

Meta has released open source tools for checking the safety of generative AI models before they are used publicly. The interestingly named Purple Llama is an umbrella project featuring open trust and safety tools and evaluations that Meta says is meant to level the playing field for developers to responsibly deploy generative AI models and experiences in accordance with best practices.

TornadoVM is a plug-in to OpenJDK that allows developers to automatically run Java programs on heterogeneous hardware.
The project has just matured to version 1.0.

It is a fundamental problem of VR and games that the virtual world is limitless, but you are constrained to a little box. Now we have VR Shoes from Freeaim VR that might just let you walk as far as you could virtually want to.

An initiative by the German Federal Government aims to strengthen the important role Open Source Software plays in modern society.

LinkedIn has made its Developer Productivity and Happiness Framework open source, just in time to help with your New Year's Resolution, whether that's to be more productive or to be happier. You're bound to have one of the two on your list of things you'll give up on halfway through January.

What better way to lure devs into the platform than to provide clear how-to instructions and deep educational material?

Ruby 3.3 is now at release candidate stage, with improvements including a new parser named Prism, the use of Lrama as a parser generator, and a new pure-Ruby JIT compiler named RJIT.

Top Book 2023
Author: Charles Petzold
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Date: August 2022
Pages: 480
ISBN: 978-0137909100
Print: 0137909101
Kindle: B0B123P5GV
Audience: General
Rating: 5
Reviewer: Mike James
Code! We all need to know about it.

This book begins by exploring the fundamentals of Java, from its primitive data types through to loops and arrays before moving on to object-oriented programming (OOP). Dr. Seán Kennedy and Maaike van Putten look at key topics such as classes and objects, inheritance, interfaces and lambda expressions.

Subtited "The Matter of Data in a Self-Inscribing World", in this book Dietmar Offenhuber argues that citizen scientists, environmental activists, and forensic amateurs are using analog methods to present evidence of pollution, climate change, and the spread of disinformation. Offenhuber presents a model for these practices, a model to make data generation accountable: autographic design.

Subtitled "What the History of Philosophy Can Teach Us about the Future of Artificial Intelligence", this book provides a framework for thinking about foundational philosophical questions surrounding the use of deep artificial neural networks ("deep learning") to achieve artificial intelligence. Specifically, Cameron J. Buckner  links recent breakthroughs to classic works in empiricist philosophy of mind