When Supporting Neurodiversity through Adaptive Programming (SNAP) returns in person to Brock University this fall, the program will have been strengthened by support from the Niagara Community Foundation.

Welcoming roughly 1,400 participants per year, SNAP is a developmentally appropriate movement education-based, embedded curriculum that provides one-on-one instruction to individuals of all ages across a broad spectrum of disabilities and severity. The program teaches participants to provide greater care for themselves and be more physically independent.

Like many other on-campus operations, SNAP’s in-person programming was put on hold in spring 2020 in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. This was the

RIT students took on some of the most prestigious universities across the northeast US and Canada in a computer programming contest. Five RIT student teams competed in the 2023 International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) Northeast North America Regional event.

RIT’s Golisano College of Computing and Information Sciences is the headquarters of the ICPC Northeast North America Regional Contest.

This year, the regional contest was held on Feb. 25 with 84 teams from 19 universities located in New York, New England, Quebec, and Atlantic Canada. There were six in-person sites across the northeast, including one at RIT’s Golisano College.

For the

AUSTIN, Texas — The University of Texas at Austin is the No. 1 school for veterans in Texas, according to US News & World Report, a reflection of the university’s continued commitment to serving student veterans and military families. Through inventive academic programming and support initiatives, the university has continued to strive to holistically meet the unique needs of service members, veterans and their families.

During the past year, new programs to support professional and continuing education, transitioning to civilian life, and strengthening family resilience were added to the university’s full roster of specialized services for military-affiliated communities.

For example,

LAWRENCE — Computer science students at the University of Kansas will test their skills throughout the remainder of the semester with a series of races using self-driving model cars developed by Amazon Web Services.

The students in Andrew Williams’ Introduction to Artificial Intelligence class have spent the semester programming their cars and virtually testing the results using AWS’ DeepRacer, a cloud-based 3D racing simulator. For the races ongoing throughout the remainder of the spring semester, though, students have built a real track in the atrium of the School of Engineering’s LEEP2 building and are testing their AI programs using 1/18th-scale

ChatGPT, an AI-powered chatbot that can simulate human conversation and write code, will metamorphose application development — and the developer profession — into a different animal, according to industry experts.

More than 1 million users have signed up for ChatGPT’s free research preview since OpenAI released the chatbot on Nov. 30. The bot can write simple webpages and applications in programming languages ​​such as JavaScript, Python and React. It can also find bugs in code and help create new programming languages.

The model interacts in a conversational way and can admit its mistakes, answer follow-up questions, challenge incorrect premises and

For would-be quantum programmers scratching their heads over how to jump into the game as quantum computers proliferate and become publicly accessible, a new beginner’s guide provides a thorough introduction to quantum algorithms and their implementation on existing hardware.

“Writing quantum algorithms is radically different from writing classical computing programs and requires some understanding of quantum principles and the mathematics behind them,” said Andrey Y. Lokhov, a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and lead author of the recently published guide in ACM Transactions on Quantum Computing. “Our guide helps quantum programmers get started in the field, which is bound