Communications of the ACM
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Computers Have Memories Too
Simons Foundation Junior Fellow Sebastian Wolff discusses his quest to simplify the switch between the two deletion processes.
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Turning a Million-Qubit Quantum Computing Dream into Reality
Intel's director of quantum hardware talks about quantum computing's reliance on the next generation of chips.
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Future of Computer Science Is in Its Application to Daily Life
Microsoft India CTO Shivkumar Kalyanaraman believes computer science's future will be based on how it can be applied as a utility.
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Patterns and Prose
A University of Southern California computer scientist is a coder by trade and a poet at heart.
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What Stewart Brand Sees on the Horizon
Silicon Valley prophet thinks tech can clean itself up.
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Democratize Machine Learning with No-Code AI
Organizations lacking skilled data scientists and ML engineers can create and deploy ML models, too.
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AI Suggested 40,000 New Chemical Weapons in Six Hours
Drug-developing artificial intelligence invents 40,000 potentially lethal molecules in quarter of a day.
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Crypto and Technology for the People
Brown University professor Seny Kamara talks about the intersection between social responsibility and cryptography/technology
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Tracing the Evolution of the Computer, from Unusual to Ubiquitous
New book chronicles computer's journey from scientific instrument to general-purpose device
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Supercomputing to Save the Planet
Fujitsu CTO Vivek Mahajan says true power of cloud will come with democratizing HPC and quantum computers for the masses
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Understanding Software Dynamics
In an interview, computer architect Richard L. Sites discusses his new book
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Connecting Large Language Models to Human Values
AI researcher Connor Leahy talks about replicating GPT-2/GPT-3, superhuman AI, AI alignment, AI risk and research norms, and more
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Machine-Learning Robustness, Foundation Models, and Reproducibility
An interview with Percy Liang, associate professor of Computer Science at Stanford University
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Robot Learning at Google and Generalization via Language
Google Robotics research scientist Eric Jang talks about robotic manipulation and self-supervised robotic learning
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The Benefits of Rust
An in-depth discussion about the virtue of Rust, its future, and more
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How Much Has Quantum Computing Actually Advanced?
John Martinis, former chief architect of Google Sycamore, offers a measured perspective on quantum's progress
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A Fix-It Job for Government Tech
To build trust in the government, it would help if the website worked
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Self-Supervised Learning and Large Language Models
Stanford PhD student discusses recent research on understanding, building, and controlling pre-trained models
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