Is AI Dominating the ICPC Competition a Revolution or a Wake-Up Call for the Programming World?

OpenAI's internal reasoning model outperformed all competitors, successfully solving all 12 algorithm problems with a perfect ...

GPT-5 Wins Programming Competition, AI's Abstract Reasoning Ability Breaks New Ground, A New Era for Large Models in Competition

The ICPC, as the oldest and largest programming competition in the world, has extremely high demands for participants' ...

Gemini AI solves coding problem that stumped 139 human teams at ICPC World Finals

Gemini's solutions for this year's ICPC were scored by the event coordinators, but Google also turned Gemini 2.5 loose on ...
EDN

MATLAB-to-C Translation, part 2: Complex functions and C interfaces

Part 1 looks at the basic problems of translating MATLAB to C. Part 3 examines the verification process and makes the case for automatic C generation. It will be published Thursday, December 13. In ...
Hackaday

Unionize Your Variables – An Introduction To Advanced Data Types In C

Programming C without variables is like, well, programming C without variables. They are so essential to the language that it doesn’t even require an analogy here. We can declare and use them as ...
Hackaday

Parallel Programming For FPGAs

One of the best features of using FPGAs for a design is the inherent parallelism. Sure, you can write software to take advantage of multiple CPUs. But with an FPGA you can enjoy massive parallelism ...
Embedded

Programming embedded systems: RTOS – automating the context switch

In the last lesson, you encountered the concept of a Real-Time Operating System (RTOS), and you worked out a manual procedure of switching the context from one thread to another. In this lesson, ...