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The Birthplace of Artificial Intelligence?
Was the 1951 Paris conference "Les machines à calculer et la pensée humaine" the birthplace of Artificial Intelligence?
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The Binary System Was Created Long Before Leibniz
There are reports of much older number systems using only two symbols that have been developed mainly in Asia.
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Student Liaison Program Debuts at SIGIR 2017
The SIGIR Student Liaison Program supports an environment in which all students thrive.
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The Rise of Strategic Cyberwar?
Cyberwar is not simply a lineal descendant of strategic air power; rather, it is the next face of battle.
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It's Not the 'Why' Chromosome, It's the 'How'
Women do like the raw technical aspects of computer science.
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Learning Programming at Scale
I summarize my first three years of research as an assistant professor on studying and building tools to support people who are learning computer programming.
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Deep Dictionary
The abstraction from big data on English words of distributed vector representations computing simple semantic aspects has drawn interest from the computing community...
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Older Adults Learning Computer Programming: Motivations, Frustrations, and Design Opportunities
I summarize the first known research study of older adults (aged 60 and over) learning computer programming.
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Fact Over Fiction
Given a choice between the right to mass-disinform and democracy, I choose democracy.
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Cybersecurity in the Trump Era
Deterrence is simply the wrong way to think about cybersecurity.
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Fact Versus Frivolity in Facebook
Facebook, for the sake of its own business integrity and for the sake of the public, should give up any attempt to guarantee veracity in items posted by users.
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What Happened?
As forecasters attempt to understand exactly what happened in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, the data itself may hold vital clues.
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Null-Pointer Crashes, No More
Void safety is a guarantee that no code will ever catch a reference with its pants down.
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Database Decay and What To Do About It
In our opinion, database decay results from the multi-department organization of large implementations.
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Stop Trying to Deter Cyberattacks
Whither cyber deterrence? In my view, let it wither.
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Star Trek@50: Inspiring Discovery and Innovation
Star Trek has inspired generations to pursue science and technology careers, not a few of whom have transformed part of it into technological and commercial fact...
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The Emerging Technology Landscape in China
Observations about the emerging technology landscape in China, looking at mobile social networking, mobile payments, taxi hailing, and same or next day delivery...
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