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Ulterior Motives
2023-2024 ACM Athena Lecturer Margo Seltzer recalls the motivations behind the development of the Berkeley DB database software library, and other achievements...
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Software Engineering in Physics Research
A discussion on how physics research scientists use software.
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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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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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Timnit Gebru Is Building a Slow AI Movement
Her new organization, DAIR, aims to show a more thoughtful mode of AI research.
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Web Scraping
The increasing use of computational approaches for data collection and data analysis in social sciences research.
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Andrew Ng Calls for Smart-Sized, 'Data-Centric' Solutions to Big Issues
AI pioneer says he has identified the next big shift in artificial intelligence
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Understanding Software Dynamics
In an interview, computer architect Richard L. Sites discusses his new book
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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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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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Infrastructure as Code
Helping software developers use code to access more control over cloud infrastructure assets
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How GitHub COO Erica Brescia Runs the Coding Gold Mines
Tech leader discusses the state of GitHub's infrastructure, open source software philosophies, and more
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Why One of Ethereum's Cofounders Is Walking Away from Crypto
Anthony Di Iorio discusses his exit, the trends behind crypto's rise, risk, security, and changes coming to Ethereum
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L. Peter Deutsch on the Fallacies of Distributed Computing
How relevant are the fallacies today?
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Q&A with Google's Bill Magro
Google's new chief technologist of HPC talks quantum computers, AI, cloud, silicone packaging, interconnect technology, and expanding HPC's reach.
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Shoshana Zuboff: Why You Should Care About Privacy
The author of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism talks about why people should pay attention to how big tech companies are using their information.
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A Computer Scientist Who Tackles Inequality Through Algorithms
Rediet Abebe uses the tools of theoretical computer science to understand pressing social problems — and try to fix them.
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AI Pioneer Geoff Hinton: 'Deep Learning Is Going to Be Able to Do Everything'
Thirty years ago, Geoffrey Hinton's belief in neural networks was contrarian. Now it's hard to find people who disagree with him.
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Q&A: Teradata CTO Stephen Brobst
Stephen Brobst, chief technology officer of Teradata., discusses his career path, his time with customers, storing programs on cassette tape, and more.
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