Mining Energy from ‘Empty’ Air
Shyam Gollakota on the benefits of reducing the power consumption of communication and tapping ambient signals for electricity.
Leah Hoffmann
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Exploring the Promise of Quantum Computing
ACM Computing Prize recipient Scott Aaronson discusses his work in quantum complexity.
Playing With, and Against, Computers
2019 ACM Computing Prize recipient David Silver on developing the AlphaGo algorithm, his fascination with Go, and on teaching computers to play.
Shaping the Foundations of Programming Languages
ACM A.M. Turing Award recipients Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman discuss their early work, the 'Dragon Book,' and the future of 'live' computer science education.
Bringing Stability to Wireless Connections
2020 Marconi Prize recipient Andrea Goldsmith on MIMO technologies, millimeter-wave communications, and her goals as the new dean of Princeton University's School of Engineering and Applied Science.
Tackling the Challenges of CS Education
Chris Stephenson on the complex challenges that continue to plague the computer science education community.
Seeing Light at the End of the Cybersecurity Tunnel
After decades of cybersecurity research, Elisa Bertino remains optimistic.
ACM A.M. Turing Award recipients Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan discuss how they helped to bring the power of three-dimensional imagery to computer graphics.
The notion of scalable operating systems led Mendel Rosenblum to virtual machines, which have revolutionized datacenters and enabled modern cloud computing.
‘Everything Fails All the Time’
Werner Vogels, an expert on ultra-scalable systems, talks about listening to customers, reconceptualizing the stack, and building a product-centered culture.
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