Communications of the ACM
Innovation Is Overrated: A Provocation
Digital innovation is not working in the interest of the whole of society. It is time to radically rethink its purpose without…
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Vint Cerf on 3 Mistakes He Made in TCP/IP
The co-creator of the Internet’s protocols admits his crystal ball had a few cracks.
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Supercomputer Emulator: AI's New Role in Science
Chris Bishop, Microsoft's head of AI4Science, sees machine learning partially supplanting simulation.
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AI's Threats to Jobs and Human Happiness Are Real
But short-term job chaos will give way to long-term prosperity, says artificial intelligence expert Kai-Fu Lee.
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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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Here's How AI Will Change Chip Design
Artificial intelligence's promise and potential for the semiconductor industry.
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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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Deep Learning Can't Be Trusted
Brain modeling pioneer Stephen Grossberg explains why his ART model is better
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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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Pentagon Wants AI to Predict Events Before They Occur
AI-enabled platforms are expected to offer strategic warning of adversarial actions prior to any irreversible moves having been made
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Why OpenAI's Codex Won't Replace Coders
Human programmers can actually become more powerful and efficient with Codex
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Yoshua Bengio, Revered Architect of AI, Has Some Ideas About What to Build Next
The Turing Award winner wants AI systems that can reason, plan, and imagine
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Untold History of AI: The DARPA Dreamer Who Aimed for Cyborg Intelligence
At 10:30pm on 29 October 1969, a graduate student at UCLA sent a two-letter message from an SDS Sigma 7 computer to another machine a few hundred miles away at...
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The Case Against Quantum Computing
Quantum computing is all the rage. It seems like hardly a day goes by without some news outlet describing the extraordinary things this technology promises.
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A Q&A With Micron Technology's Memory Mastermind
For over 50 years, the exponential shrinking of circuit components on chips predicted by Gordon Moore has allowed all sorts of modern wonders, from personal computers...
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This Tech Would Have Spotted the Secret Chinese Chip in Seconds
According to Bloomberg Businessweek, spies in China managed to insert chips into computer systems that would allow external control of those systems.
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How Programmable Calculators and a Sci-Fi Story Brought Soviet Teens Into the Digital Age
Despite the ubiquity of computers in modern society, the vast majority of today's students never study computer science or computer programming.
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John Hennessy, Chairman of Alphabet, on Smart Risks, Employee Activism, and the Dangers of Short-Term Thinking
Last week, Alphabet chair and former Stanford University president John Hennessy joined former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer on the stage of the Computer History Museum...
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David Patterson Says It's Time for New Computer Architectures and Software Languages
David Patterson—University of California professor, Google engineer, and RISC pioneer—says there's no better time than now to be a computer architect.
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Intel Execs Address the AI Talent Shortage, AI Education, and the 'Cool' Factor
Last week, I sat down with Intel's Gadi Singer, vice president and general manager of artificial intelligence architecture, and Chris Rice, head of AI talent acquisition...
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