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OpenAI released ChatGPT on November 30, 2022 as a research preview built from the GPT-3.5 family. The web interface made large language models accessible to people who had never used an AI API or read a machine-learning paper. Read more
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Elon Musk completed his acquisition of Twitter on October 27, 2022, ending months of attempts to withdraw from the agreement. He immediately dismissed several senior executives and soon began large reductions in the workforce. Read more
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AI-assisted programming is becoming much more visible. GitHub Copilot is one of the clearest examples. It can suggest lines, functions, tests, and common patterns while a developer writes code. Read more
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If you are joining Computer Engineering in 2022, you are starting at a time when both software and hardware are receiving renewed attention. Read more
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NVIDIA announced the GeForce RTX 40 series in September 2022 using its Ada Lovelace architecture. The RTX 4090 and 4080 focused on much higher ray-tracing and AI performance while moving to TSMC’s 4N manufacturing process. Read more
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Software development in 2022 is shaped by several trends that have been growing for years. Cloud computing is now a normal part of many systems. Organizations use services from AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, and other providers instead of owning every server themselves. Containers and Kubernetes have also become important for deploying software consistently across different environments. Read more
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In 2022, the importance of computing can be seen from two very different directions: software and chips. Read more
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Stable Diffusion was released publicly in August 2022 and changed text-to-image generation by making model weights available for people to run on their own hardware. Read more
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NASA released the first full-color scientific images from the James Webb Space Telescope in July 2022. The images were visually spectacular, but they were not simple camera snapshots. Read more
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Apple announced the M2 processor at WWDC in June 2022 as the second generation of its Mac-oriented Apple silicon. M2 kept the same broad architecture as M1 but increased CPU and GPU performance, memory bandwidth, and maximum unified memory capacity. Read more
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Google Research revealed Imagen in May 2022, a text-to-image diffusion model that produced unusually detailed images from natural-language prompts. Imagen combined a large pretrained text encoder with a cascade of diffusion models that progressively generated and upscaled images. Read more
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Image generation from text has improved remarkably quickly. Systems such as DALL-E 2, announced by OpenAI this year, can create images from written descriptions with a level of coherence that would have looked much less convincing only a short time ago. Read more
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Twitter accepted Elon Musk’s approximately $44 billion acquisition offer in April 2022. What followed was not a normal software product cycle but a prolonged legal and corporate struggle over whether the purchase would actually happen. Read more
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Software development changes quickly enough to make almost everyone feel behind sometimes. A new framework appears. A familiar library changes. Cloud platforms add services. A programming language gains features. Security practices evolve. Read more
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NVIDIA introduced the Hopper data-center GPU architecture at GTC in March 2022. The flagship H100 was designed primarily for AI and high-performance computing rather than consumer graphics. Read more
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Valve began shipping the Steam Deck in February 2022. The handheld used a custom AMD “Aerith” APU with Zen 2 CPU cores and RDNA 2 graphics, paired with a 1280×800 display and controls designed for both games and desktop-style input. Read more
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Microsoft announced in January 2022 that it planned to acquire Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion. The deal would place franchises such as Call of Duty, Warcraft, Diablo, and Candy Crush under the same company that operated Xbox and Game Pass. Read more
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Students who want to become software engineers often ask the same questions. Which language should I learn? Do grades matter? Do I need mathematics? How many projects should I build? Read more
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The Log4Shell vulnerability was disclosed in December 2021 in Log4j, a Java logging library embedded in an enormous number of applications. The flaw became critical because a specially crafted string could trigger JNDI lookups that, in vulnerable configurations, led to remote code execution. Read more
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Amazon Web Services announced Graviton3 at re:Invent in November 2021 as the third generation of its custom ARM-based server processor. The chip was designed for AWS rather than sold as a general retail CPU. Read more