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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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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The US agency in charge of developing fossil fuels has a new job: cleaning them up
The Office of Fossil Energy and Carbon Management has a new name, new leaders, and a new mandate to meet Joe Biden’s climate goals.
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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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The Long Road Ahead to Transition to Post-Quantum Cryptography
Much of the post-quantum transition work that needs to be done can start now, even while we wait for algorithm and protocol standards to be updated.
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Even If Users Do Not Read Security Directives, Their Behavior Is Not So Catastrophic
When we eventually started to analyze the obtained data after the third survey round, we discovered surprising results that led to heated discussions among the research team members.
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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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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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Dune Foresaw—and Influenced—Half a Century of Global Conflict
From Afghanistan to cyberattacks, Frank Herbert’s novel anticipated and shaped warfare as we know it.
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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
