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Cyber Training

[Comic] Cyber Training

How can we help you: The Educational Committee in a Nutshell

Hopefully you feel prepared, cause the new academic year is starting. No matter if you’re in your first year or approaching the final stretch, embracing support and striving for an enriching academic journey can truly enhance your experience. Whether you are facing challenges or simply seeking to elevate your

[Puzzle] Instant Insanity

In this section I would like to try something different in proposing a puzzle to you all. In the game of Instant Insanity, where 4 cubes are used, each side of a cube is painted one of the colours red, green, white or blue. For example in the following way:

A Giant About Dwarves

Most of you will probably have heard of The Sims and even played it: a video game franchise that revolves around simulating the lives of virtual characters all with their own personality and background. It is probably one of the most well-known simulation games in existence. Simulating the virtual characters

Will AI take over: The current state of human-AI collaboration

Nowadays, you often hear people say that “Robots will surpass our intelligence” or “We will lose our jobs because of AI”. There is certainly a growing trend towards the importance and potential of artificial intelligence in jobs and daily life, which causes people to conclude the outcome of AI replacing

How Computers Got Fast

In April 2022, Epic Games announced the release of its new game engine, Unreal Engine 5. This engine was groundbreaking in how it was able to render ever increasingly realistic worlds with models of millions of polygons and fully dynamic lighting, all in real-time. As impressive as this is from

Editorial

Editorial 38.2

Wait... What? A second I/O Vivat in such a short timeframe? Yes, indeed that is correct. With the full support of the Inter-Actief and ENIAC boards a new chapter in the history of the I/O Vivat is started. First of all, let us say many thanks to the

Education

Programme Director TCS: Perfectly Balanced, as All Things Should Be

Unless you are a certain sports gear producing company, you cannot just do it. Any human, initiative or organisation needs a big idea supporting them and driving all their activities. As the programme director, I am often asked…

Code

[ENIAC Thesis Award] You can (not) rename: Introduction to Negotiated Renaming

On average, 70% of any codebase is identifiers. Hence, one of the most used techniques of code refactoring is renaming. Renaming is the process of globally and systematically changing the name of an identifier within the code to better represent its purpose. Symbol renaming is widely supported in most code

No Code and Low Code: The End of Programming?

Writing computer code is the closest a person can come to modern magic. A few words and numbers go into the computer, and somehow the computer knows that the code is supposed to be a website, and everything works. It is often difficult to get into coding on a more

Alan Turing

The Disgraced Father: An ode to the hero of Computer Science

The legend Feynman, the nightmare Laplace A physics student generally likes to talk about his heroes. It usually does not take long for an enthusiastic member of Arago to completely overwhelm you with facts about Feynman. You’ll hear about his eccentric personality and his contributions to the world of

Coding

Coding Challenges: A necessity or counterproductive?

Google, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and many other technology companies use them during their application process. Coding challenges, algorithmic programming tasks that try to reveal how good a software engineer is at finding efficient and scalable solutions. During the technical interview process, an applicant is asked to solve a problem on

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