New pre-print alert: arxiv.org/abs/2507.05305

I’ll be working with Day of AI Australia and Google to build interactive GenAI experiences for Aussie school kids! Read more: blog.google/intl/en-au/f...

Another year, another SIGCSE TS.

Our paper on conversational generative AI for programming debugging: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

A BoF session delivering a session on AI Literacy for K-12, presenting our lessons learned running Day of AI.

Capping it off with a visit to MIT RAISE and MIT Solve.

Is it managed by an employer?

Could be so many reasons, but on a fresh install it’s very snappy on an M1. Few years since a factory system reset, antivirus, SIP (I believe Apple hits their server on every app open!!), or if it’s a managed machine that can slow them down a lot.

Really we’re just going to extreme lengths to ensure we can keep teaching C as our students’ first language: www.unsw.edu.au/engineering/...

@cyberhammond.com @litoria.bsky.social

(Not quite) end of term drinks @florasalim.bsky.social

Before & After: I don’t think people realize the extent to which parked cars degrade public space.

Some mid-conference hacking to pull in real-time numbers into the Debugging C Compiler website, 14 million compilations! dcc.cse.unsw.edu.au

Putting together a starter pack of CS academics in Australia (+NZ), hit me up to be added.
go.bsky.app/N5x6GLQ

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CSE, UNSW Sydney is hiring multiple Associate Professors (Level D, tenured) on:
- Algorithms
- Computer Graphics
- Embedded Systems
- Formal Methods
- NLP
- Theoretical Machine Learning
- Robotics
Closing 27 Jan 2025. Those wanting to know about working in Sydney and Australia do reach out 🦘🎓
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At Koli Calling in Finland presenting our very early work on fine-tuning Large Language Models to align them with pedagogical behaviour.

These models power our compiler error explanation system: dcc.cse.unsw.edu.au

Read the paper: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

@cyberhammond.com, @litoria.bsky.social

Stoked to finally share that Google have funded our DCC + LLM research (research.google/outreach/air...) as Sasha Vassar, @litoria.bsky.social and I will design and develop pedagogically-minded LLMs to making programming more accessible. We are also launching our new homepage: dcc.cse.unsw.edu.au

Happy SIGCSE notification day! Celebrating the acceptance of our paper "dcc --help: Transforming the Role of the Compiler by Generating Context-Aware Error Explanations with Large Language Models". @litoria.bsky.social @cyberhammond.com