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"We think of generating source code from a prompt as an AI-powered feature of modern IDEs, but the general problem has a rich history in research efforts and domain-specific programming systems." Join William Benton at this year's Berlin Buzzwords to hear him talk about the history of program synthesis, its relationship to the history of AI, and the lessons we can learn from it today.
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That Zohran Kwame Mamdani should be a serious contender for the leadership of America’s largest city is both a sign of the times and of his individual capabilities.
Polls show him within striking distance of the frontrunner Andrew Cuomo in what is now essentially a two-horse race, with Lander trailing a distant third.
Mamdani came to the US aged seven from Uganda where he was born to parents of Indian descent.
His father is a political scientist Mahmood Mamdani, and his mot…

It all fits. Suppose you’re corporate leadership. You’re laying people off / refusing to hire because you have no clue what things will look like even 1 or 2 years in the future, and you are •terrified•.
Meanwhile, your investors, your gullible trend-chasing investors, are already mentally dividing companies into “pre-AI” and “post-AI.” And not only do you have no idea how to be “post-AI,” but you have no idea whether you’ll be solvent next year. What do you tell them?!??
Obviously you tell them you’re not hiring because you’re having such incredible success with AI! Maybe even you’re going to lay off all the senior people! They’ll love that!
Now you’re not failing and flailing — you’re leading the march into the future! Yay!

@… I explicitly do not discuss the Concrete Reference Syntax (i.e., the angle brackets) in this paper, but some other historical idiosyncrasies:
Michael Piotrowski (2019). “History and the future of markup”. In: Proceedings of XML Prague 2019 (Prague, Feb. 7–9, 2019). Ed. by Jiří Kosek, pp. 323–333. URL:

@… I explicitly do not discuss the Concrete Reference Syntax (i.e., the angle brackets) in this paper, but some other historical idiosyncrasies:
Michael Piotrowski (2019). “History and the future of markup”. In: Proceedings of XML Prague 2019 (Prague, Feb. 7–9, 2019). Ed. by Jiří Kosek, pp. 323–333. URL:

@… you might wanna cover that anyone who tested the Secret Chat feature is losing their unencrypted chat history (their primary chat) and there's no way to switch the unencrypted chat to encrypted. https://www.…

That Zohran Kwame Mamdani should be a serious contender for the leadership of America’s largest city is both a sign of the times and of his individual capabilities.
Polls show him within striking distance of the frontrunner Andrew Cuomo in what is now essentially a two-horse race, with Brad Lander trailing a distant third.
Mamdani came to the US aged seven from Uganda where he was born to parents of Indian descent.
His father is a political scientist Mahmood Mamdani, and hi…

Dear Computer History people: I'm searching for books covering the history of the MIT Media Lab.The only one I found so far is "The Media Lab" by Stewart Brand, released in 1988. So a bit dated. Are you aware of other titles, which also cover the time AFTER 1988? It might be titles on other subjects but with a significant amount on the MIT Media Lab.
Edit: There is some material on their website as well:

History – MIT Media Lab
A brief history of the Media LabWhen the MIT Media Lab first opened its doors in 1985, it combined a vision of a digital future with a new style of creative in…

The Past, Present, and Future of Left Jewish Identity https://jacobin.com/2025/06/history-left-jewish-identity-politics/

The Past, Present, and Future of Left Jewish Identity
The kind of Jewish identity on display in Jewish-led Palestine solidarity demonstrations organized by groups like Jewish Voice for Peace is part of a long history of Jewish identity being bound up in leftist politics.

The future's so bright, I gotta wear 😎
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