Antony Hosking(@AntonyHosking) 's Twitter Profileg
Antony Hosking

@AntonyHosking

Professor and Director of ANU School of Computing @anucecs, computer scientist, PL researcher, author of GC Handbook: Art of Automatic Memory Management

ID:291536701

linkhttp://hosking.github.io calendar_today02-05-2011 05:30:43

1,4K Tweets

832 Followers

560 Following

Follow People
Steven Sinofsky(@stevesi) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Transformers: the Google scientists who pioneered an AI revolution ft.com/content/37bb01โ€ฆ // This is a fun story of where transformers came from and what it built on. It makes a big deal out of people leaving Google but that is an asset/advantage of SV, not a liability.

account_circle
Richard Jones ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ๐Ÿ’™(@profrejones) 's Twitter Profile Photo

2nd edition of the finally arrived.
The latest collectors. New material on finalisation, weak references, dynamic languages, GC on the GPU, energy efficiency and GC for persistent systems.

2nd edition of the #gchandbook finally arrived. The latest collectors. New material on finalisation, weak references, dynamic languages, GC on the GPU, energy efficiency and GC for persistent systems.
account_circle
Adrian Herrera(@0xadr1an) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If youโ€™re a uni student interested in vulnerability research, come work with me and build some cool tooling!

account_circle
ACM SIGPLAN(@sigplan) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The SIGPLAN Executive Committee was recently made aware of an incident of bullying within the SIGPLAN community, carried out by anonymous email.

account_circle
Antony Hosking(@AntonyHosking) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Having a Massive Sook After Losing a Test Match โ€œIs in the Spirit of the Gameโ€, England Confirms โ€” The Shovel theshovel.com.au/2023/07/04/havโ€ฆ

account_circle
David Shorter(@davidshorter) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In 2019, I convinced my department that student evaluations of teaching (SET) were not only unreliable gauges of efficacy, but that they would also put us in legal liability if used to decide merit/promotion. If your promotion depends on SET, please take note. A thread. 1/8

In 2019, I convinced my department that student evaluations of teaching (SET) were not only unreliable gauges of efficacy, but that they would also put us in legal liability if used to decide merit/promotion. If your promotion depends on SET, please take note. A thread. 1/8
account_circle
Andrew Myers(@AndrewCMyers) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The Wooden Firehouse: An allegory for computer security [A/B test]
You have lived all your life in a quickly growing town, whose growth has been sped up by constructing all the buildings out of wood. Some buildings in town are huge structures that have been repeatedly expanded/1

The Wooden Firehouse: An allegory for computer security [A/B test] You have lived all your life in a quickly growing town, whose growth has been sped up by constructing all the buildings out of wood. Some buildings in town are huge structures that have been repeatedly expanded/1
account_circle
Mark Guzdial(@guzdial) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Broadening Participation in Computing by Moving Away from Computer Science: Information, Arts, Humanities, and Sciences offer better models forย  computinged.wordpress.com/2023/06/15/broโ€ฆ

account_circle
Shriram Krishnamurthi ๐Ÿฆ†(@ShriramKMurthi) 's Twitter Profile Photo

IEEE has so many garbage publication venues, but we never seem to talk about it. I've seen them partner with/publish so much junk. In CS we sometimes think ACM ~= IEEE but ACM is oom better. Frankly: I instinctively discount IEEE venues I haven't heard of.
retractionwatch.com/2023/06/15/plaโ€ฆ

account_circle
Shoaib Akram(@shb_anu) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This time of the year when such things appear on my desk ๐Ÿ˜€ COMP2300 is ANU's rigorous introduction to computer systems.

Also, thank you Harris & Harris for you textbook, for which countless students are grateful (and which motivates me to write my own (text)book one day ๐Ÿ™‚

This time of the year when such things appear on my desk ๐Ÿ˜€ COMP2300 is ANU's rigorous introduction to computer systems. Also, thank you Harris & Harris for you textbook, for which countless students are grateful (and which motivates me to write my own (text)book one day ๐Ÿ™‚
account_circle