We believe that AI technologies are likely to be overwhelmingly useful and beneficial for humanity. But part of being a responsible steward of any new technology...Google Research Blog From ACM Opinion | June 22, 2016
At a shopping mall here one recent Friday, six-year-old Ruby Dowling made friends with a friendly egg-shaped robot.The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | June 20, 2016
Back in March, James Michael McAdoo, the power forward for the Golden State Warriors, tweeted out a photo of himself in the training room, sporting a pair of slick...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | June 16, 2016
Deep learning is rapidly 'eating' artificial intelligence. But let's not mistake this ascendant form of artificial intelligence for anything more than it really...Wired From ACM Opinion | June 15, 2016
Nick McKeown and his new startup, Barefoot Networks, just launched out of stealth. That's Silicon Valley-speak for trumpeting the arrival of your new startup in...Wired From ACM Opinion | June 15, 2016
Last week, Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of Tesla Motors, SpaceX, and other cutting-edge companies, took a surprising question at the Code Conference, a technology...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | June 13, 2016
I took a vacation last month. I traveled some. I read a lot. And I refurbished an old late 2008 MacBook Pro, one of the original aluminum unibody models.Ars Technica From ACM Opinion | June 8, 2016
America's nuclear arsenal depends on a surprising relic of the 1970s that few of us may recall: the humble floppy disk.
The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | May 31, 2016
American airport security has never been something to look forward to, but in the past few weeks, it's attained new levels of misery.Wired From ACM Opinion | May 27, 2016
One of humanity’s most significant events will be the discovery of intelligent life elsewhere in universe. Back in the 1980s, a group of astronomers involved in...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | May 23, 2016
Unforeseen problems can result from the absence of impartial independent evaluations.Rebecca T. Mercuri, Peter G. Neumann From Communications of the ACM | June 1, 2016
The humanities are kaput. Sorry, liberal arts cap-and-gowners. You blew it. In a software-run world, what's wanted are more engineers.The New York Times From ACM Opinion | May 23, 2016
My instinct upon leaping into id Software's hyper-gruesome Doom, a gonzo shooter out May 13 for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, is to dawdle.Time From ACM Opinion | May 17, 2016
At Harvard today, an invitation-only group of about 150 scientists, lawyers, and entrepreneurs, met to discuss if and how to construct from scratch an entire human...Cosmos Magazine From ACM Opinion | May 13, 2016