Learning to code isn’t enough
Historically, learn-to-code efforts have provided opportunities for the few, but new efforts are aiming to be inclusive.
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Shift happens: Writing about the history of keyboards
After discovering that a history of keyboards— from typewriters to iPhones—had yet to be written, designer and typographer Marcin Wichary got to work.
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The inside story of New York City’s 34-year-old social network, ECHO
Stacy Horn set out to create something new and very New York. She didn’t expect it to last so long.
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How AI is helping historians better understand our past
The historians of tomorrow are using computer science to analyze how people lived centuries ago.
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Lamboozling Attackers: A New Generation of Deception
Imagine a world in which developers and operators of systems exploit attackers as much as attackers exploit defenders. By leveraging system-design knowledge and modern computing to deploy deception environments, software engineering teams can successfully bamboozle attackers for fun and profit while deepening systems resilience.
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The Software Industry Is Still the Problem
The time is way overdue for IT engineers to be subject to professional liability, like almost every other engineering profession.
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Our House Is On Fire: The Climate Emergency and Computing’s Responsibility
We will most likely never do better than a best guess at computing’s carbon footprint, but given uncertainties it would be safer and more responsible to act on the assumption that higher estimates could be closer to the truth—especially since the pace of warming has exceeded our expectations at every point. But in big-picture terms, the difference between 1.8% and 3.9% does not fundamentally change our mission: computing’s emissions must be reduced urgently and drastically. How are we going to achieve this?
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Toward Verified Artificial Intelligence
Verified AI is the goal of achieving strong, ideally provable assurances of correctness and trustworthiness of AI systems with respect to mathematically specified requirements. Five challenge areas for verified AI: Environment modelling, Formal specification, Modeling learning systems, Scalable formal engines, and Correct-by-construction design.
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Life Is Great in the Age of No Secrets
It’s getting easier and easier to put data out there, to help people better understand the world. And that gives me hope for the future.
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The US Military Is Building Its Own Metaverse
Defense tech companies have latched on to the metaverse hype—but what they’re building will be a far cry from Meta’s virtual world.
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Extreme Heat Is a Disease for Cities. Treat It That Way
The “urban heat island effect” creates extra-hot temperatures that kill. But cities can prescribe powerful treatments, like green spaces and reflective roofs.
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Cookie Monster
We have been studying cookie consent banners in my lab at Carnegie Mellon University to gain insights into how banner design impacts user comprehension and what cookies they accept.
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Hidden beneath the surface
Digging deep into a humble lake in Canada, scientists found a spot on Earth like no other — and a record that could redefine our history of the planet
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Brain Implants Get Real
Like all science and technology, neural implants will deliver enormous benefits for some, but also amplify risks for misuse and abuse.
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The secret police: Cops built a shadowy surveillance machine in Minnesota after George Floyd’s murder
An investigation by MIT Technology Review reveals a sprawling, technologically sophisticated system in Minnesota designed for closely monitoring protesters.
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Money is about to enter a new era of competition
Digital technology is poised to change our relationship with money and, for some countries, the ability to manage their economies.
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The ‘Form’ Element Created the Modern Web. Was It a Big Mistake?
A little HTML widget gave us all-powerful Amazon and Facebook. There’s no closing Pandora’s text box now.
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Explorations in Cyber-Physical Systems Education
During the 2006–2007 academic year, a small group of educators from the University of California, Berkeley’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences (EECS) department…met to discuss the creation of an undergraduate [“cyber-physical systems” (CPS)] curriculum. … A major challenge to this effort was the breadth of topics needed to cover the area. A further obstacle was trying to balance theoretical content with practical, lab-based coursework. From these discussions, however, emerged the basic contours of an undergraduate course, which developed over the next decade into a broader “expedition” in CPS education.
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The delivery apps reshaping life in India’s megacities
Local shops are integral to how urban Indians buy fresh food and other essentials. A host of well-funded “quick commerce” companies want to eat their lunch.
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