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computer scientist

American  
[kuhm-pyoo-ter sahy-uhnt-ist] / kəmˈpyu tər ˈsaɪ ənt ɪst /

noun

  1. a specialist in or student of computer science.


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“We’ve achieved AGI,” Huang said in a podcast interview External link with computer scientist and podcaster Lex Fridman, released Monday.

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026

A US physicist and a Canadian computer scientist have won this year's Turing Award for their invention of a form of seemingly unbreakable encryption.

From BBC • Mar. 18, 2026

My colleague, computer scientist Stefan Schmid, and I, a technology law and policy scholar, show in a forthcoming accepted paper in the journal Communications of the ACM that large language models exhibit communication bias.

From Salon • Jan. 3, 2026

Co-author and UVM computer scientist Nick Cheney sees strong parallels between this challenge and evolutionary dynamics.

From Science Daily • Dec. 30, 2025

“Programming with cards,” one computer scientist from that era remembers, “did not teach you programming. It taught you patience and proofreading.”

From "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell