AI compressed the build. Fundamentals matter more, not less, and the product funnel is now where engineers earn their keep.

Visitors pass in front of the Qualcomm stand at the MWC (Mobile World Congress), the world's biggest mobile fair, in Barcelona on March 4, 2025. Surrounded by investment and innovation projects, the ...

If you came up building software in the 1990s or early 2000s, you remember the visceral satisfaction of determinism. You wrote code. The compiler analyzed it, optimized it, and emitted precisely the ...

Wa (Chinese name "凹", which pronounced "Wa") is a general-purpose programming language designed for for WebAssembly. The goal is to provide a simple, reliable, easy-to-use, statically typed language ...

Writing a frontend (parsing + semantic analysis + code generation) Writing a backend for every CPU architecture and operating system you wanted to support If you wanted x86, ARM, and RISC-V support, ...

Abstract: Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) have achieved remarkable success across domains such as recommendation and scientific computing, yet their practical deployment remains constrained by high ...

With increasing model complexity, models are typically re-used and evolved rather than starting from scratch. There is also a growing challenge in ensuring that these models can seamlessly work across ...

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Automata theory and compiler design might seem like distinct fields, but they are deeply interconnected. At the heart of both lies a rigorous understanding of formal systems and languages. Automata ...

Abstract: Compiler design for programming language recognition is a tedious process with crucial phases. These phases include lexical analysis, syntax parsing, semantic validation, intermediate code ...

Over the past decade I have been involved in several projects that have designed either instruction set architecture (ISA) extensions or clean-slate ISAs for various kinds of processors (you will even ...

The Bosque Programming Language project is a ground up language & tooling co-design effort focused on is investigating the theoretical and the practical implications of: Explicitly designing a code ...