From Schneier on Security
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration
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B. Schneier| February 29, 2024
Seventh-grader Brayden Foxhoven hurries to finish his chicken fingers. He has bases to capture. Gems to collect. Viewers to entertain. From Phys.org Technology News | June 8, 2016 at 03:50 PM
After hearing good things about the latest in crash-prevention technologies, you decided to add automatic emergency braking to your new car. From Phys.org Technology News | June 8, 2016 at 12:40 PM
A final-year student at the University of Dundee has used his dissertation to find more ways to use footprints found at crime scenes. From Phys.org Technology News | June 8, 2016 at 08:40 AM
Professor David Stupples, City's Professor of Electronic and Radio Systems, says the time has come for the flight data recorder (FDR) and the cockpit data recorder... From Phys.org Technology News | June 6, 2016 at 07:26 AM
Two state-of-the-art airport towers due to go into operation this fall in San Francisco and Las Vegas will first need extensive remodeling to make room for technology... From Phys.org Technology News | June 6, 2016 at 04:46 AM
I'm starting to get asked about STOC 2017 dates -- we recently executed the hotel contract, and STOC will be June 18-23 in Montreal. (It will really "start" the...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | June 1, 2016 at 04:13 PM
If you ignore the bigrams, then most of your results are irrelevant. Boost bigram matches a little bit? Then you still have a lot of…Continue reading on Medium...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | May 31, 2016 at 11:52 AM
I’ve spent most of my career advocating for the use of query understanding to improve search relevance. It’s not that I don’t value search…Continue reading on Medium...Daniel Tunkelang From The Noisy Channel | May 31, 2016 at 09:01 AM
I've not been blogging much, but I have an excuse now that class evaluations have arrived. By posting about the evaluations, the students know I read them. And...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | May 30, 2016 at 11:05 PM
These days, when people over 80 in Beijing take a bus, see a doctor or spend money, their activities are digitally tracked by the government, as part of an effort... From Phys.org Technology News | May 30, 2016 at 02:40 AM
The Dutch government is considering banning the country's millions of cyclists from using their cellphones while riding, saying pedaling and phones are a dangerous... From Phys.org Technology News | May 26, 2016 at 03:30 PM
The ubiquitous Chat Bot popping up on websites asking if you need help has become standard on many sites. We dismiss, we engage, but do we trust the algorithm that... From Phys.org Technology News | May 25, 2016 at 12:59 PM
Phil Klein passed on that there's a delay at SIAM in getting the SODA 2017 CFP up, and of course we want to get out the relevant information out to the community...Michael Mitzenmacher From My Biased Coin | May 25, 2016 at 12:43 PM
A trailblazing online search engine that will save researchers years of time while conducting meta-analysis will be unveiled next week at the University of Calgary... From Phys.org Technology News | May 25, 2016 at 10:30 AM
Drivers can see trains approaching but cannot accurately judge their speed when proceeding through a passive level crossing, a QUT and Australasian Centre for Rail... From Phys.org Technology News | May 25, 2016 at 07:44 AM
It's as easy as riding a bike … or so the saying goes. But how do we manage to stay upright on a bicycle? If anyone ventures an answer they most often say that... From Phys.org Technology News | May 25, 2016 at 06:03 AM
The government is spending about three-fourths of its technology budget maintaining aging computer systems, including platforms more than 50 years old in vital... From Phys.org Technology News | May 25, 2016 at 04:12 AM
In criminal justice systems, credit markets, employment arenas, higher education admissions processes and even social media networks, data-driven algorithms now... From Phys.org Technology News | May 24, 2016 at 10:40 AM