The Best Way to Learn Online? Be a Lurker
The internet has made me immune to a coherent narrative. In order to truly understand anything, I’ve taught myself to read networks.
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Generally covering the broad topics of computing and related technology.
What Went Wrong?
For well over a decade, I have been arguing that governments should create IT accident investigation boards for the exact same reasons they have done so for ships, railroads, planes, and in many cases, automobiles.
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There Is No AI Without Data
AI has not yet delivered on the promises in industry practice. The core business of industrial enterprises is not yet AI-enhanced.
We see a major need for future research regarding functional capabilities and realization technologies for an enterprise data marketplace.
We Are Not Users: Gaining Control Over New Technologies
Our challenge is to ensure new technologies support us as humans, not ceding our control to them, or letting them make us dumber.
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A Year in Lockdown: How the Waves of COVID-19 Impact Internet Traffic
As challenging as the past year (and more) has been, the Internet has made it possible for many important aspects of life, work, and culture to continue.
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The Future of Supply Chains
Until regulators stop butting heads, drone delivery rollout likely will continue to lag well behind ground robots in the autonomous delivery stakes.
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Deep Learning for AI
We believe that deep networks excel because they exploit a particular form of compositionality in which features in one layer are combined in many different ways to create more abstract features in the next layer.
A key question for the future of AI is how do humans learn so much from observation alone?
The Harm in Conflating Aging With Accessibility
Diversity nourishes insight and innovation; it helps society to become more empathetic, and design more compassionate technologies.
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Phone Keyboard Tips You Might Not Know About
From editing to dictation, you can do more with your smartphone’s keyboard than you might have realized.
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California’s Heat Wave Is a Big Moment for Batteries
Scorching temperatures in the Golden State are a test case for a more flexible energy grid.
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Monetizing Your Personal Data
Considering issues around data brokers that enable consumers to collect revenue from the use of their personal data.
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Epic Versus Apple and the Future of App Stores
What we need to do … is find a more equitable way to govern these marketplaces and share the wealth they are creating.
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How Reliable Is Smartphone-Based Electronic Contact Tracing for COVID-19?
Identifying the optimal trade-off between discovery latency, energy consumption, and success probability is crucial for efficient and reliable contact tracing.
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Fifty Years of P vs. NP and the Possibility of the Impossible
The P vs. NP problem, and the theory behind it, has not changed dramatically, but the world of computing most certainly has.
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A Biography of the Pixel
The pixel as the organizing principle of all pictures, from cave paintings to Toy Story.
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Meet the Little-Known Genius Who Helped Make Pixar Possible
Alvy Ray Smith helped invent computer animation as we know it—then got royally shafted by Steve Jobs. Now he’s got a vision for where the pixel will take us next.
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Knowledge Graphs
Tracking the historical events that lead to the interweaving of data and knowledge.
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
—George Santayana
What The Matrix Got Wrong About Cities of the Future
Where the movie foresaw a distinction between digital and physical reality, modern cities are merging them, and not necessarily in a good way.
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How two new supercomputers will improve weather forecasts
Each of the upgrades by the US National Weather Service is the size of 10 refrigerators, has the capacity of 12.1 petaflops, and will help predict storms made worse by climate change.
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How AI is reinventing what computers are
Three key ways artificial intelligence is changing what it means to compute.
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