Assistant Professor
University of British Columbia (UBC) Vancouver Campus, Vancouver, British Columbia, CanadaThe Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering...
Communications of the ACM
December 2020
Birthday Bit Boundaries
12.01.2020Which birthdays would have special significance if our culture were binary-based instead of decimal-based?
Dijkstra Was Wrong About 'Radical Novelty': Metaphors in CS Education
11.30.2020The most cited CS education paper is, unfortunately, wrong.
Why Great Programmers Pull Back the Curtain While Programming
11.24.2020Want to be a great programmer? If so, you have to pull back the curtain and learn how software really …
Search and Rescue Drones Use AI to Find People Lost in Woods
12.02.2020New drones are equipped with a deep learning application that …
London AI Lab Claims Breakthrough That Could Accelerate Drug Discovery
12.01.2020Researchers at DeepMind say they have solved "the protein folding …
A Neural Network Learns When It Should Not Be Trusted
12.01.2020Researchers have enabled a neural network to rapidly process data …
Technologies for the Visually Impaired
The last decade has seen major advancements in technology for the blind and visually impaired, but problems remain.
Softening Up Robots
Giving robots soft, artificial skin would enable them to work more closely with people.
