It's welcome news that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has dropped its legal effort to force Apple to help it create a method of accessing data on a lockedSan...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | April 6, 2016
Nearly 20 years ago, after a chess-playing computer called Deep Blue beat the world grandmaster Garry Kasparov, I wrote an article about why humans would long remain...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | April 5, 2016
Concerned because you can't pry your daughter away from Minecraft? Worried that your son spends every moment obsessing over moves in the super-popular video game...CNET From ACM Opinion | April 1, 2016
In 1984, I was part of a team that was developing a receiver for a satellite-navigation system. After weeks of debugging, the blur of random digits settled on a...Nature From ACM Opinion | March 31, 2016
Marvin Minsky was one of the founders of artificial intelligence, and with John McCarthy, he created MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory...IEEE Spectrum From ACM Opinion | March 30, 2016
Andy Grove, the Silicon Valley pioneer who died last week at age 79, was many things: a survivor of the Nazi occupation of Hungary and refugee of Cold War Eastern...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | March 28, 2016
The praise this week for Andy Grove, who died on Monday at age 79, has been wrapped up in praise for Silicon Valley, where he was a towering figure in the semiconductor...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | March 28, 2016
This week, the Department of Justice (DOJ) created a potentially dangerous precedent when it indicted seven Iranian hackers involved in attacks on the US financial...Wired From ACM Opinion | March 28, 2016
Every once in a while, President Obama removes his Law Professor in Chief hat and puts on his I Get Terrifying Briefings Every Day hat.Backchannel From ACM Opinion | March 18, 2016
There are not many occasions when one can give an unqualified thumbs-up to something the government does, but this is one such occasion.The Guardian From ACM Opinion | March 17, 2016
ALPHAGO, the artificial intelligence system built by the Google subsidiary DeepMind, has just defeated the human champion, Lee Se-dol, four games to one in the...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | March 16, 2016
AlphaGo's victories against legendary Go player Lee Se-dol over the last few days mark a major milestone in AI research.The Verge From ACM Opinion | March 14, 2016
Apple's refusal to comply with a judge's demand that it help the FBI unlock a terrorist's iPhone has triggered a roiling debate about how much the U.S. government...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | March 11, 2016
In 1997, IBM's Deep Blue computer defeated the world chess champion Garry Kasparov. It was a momentous occasion for artificial intelligence, showing how far a clever...CNN From ACM Opinion | March 10, 2016