An obituary of Tony Hoare, a pioneer and one of the greatest programmers in the early history of computing.

Classicist, philosopher, wit, and one of the greatest British computer scientists of all time Obit Professor Charles Anthony Richard Hoare has died at the age of 92. Known to many computer science ...

The Slug Algorithm has been around for a decade now, mostly quietly rendering fonts and later entire GUIs using Bézier curves ...

Large language models appear aligned, yet harmful pretraining knowledge persists as latent patterns. Here, the authors prove current alignment creates only local safety regions, leaving global ...