Technical Marvels, Part 4: Leonardo da Vinci’s Robots
Polymath Leonardo da Vinci designed a wide range of machines and instruments over 500 years ago.
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Data Breach Prevention: Strategies For Proactive Cyber Defense
Data breach prevention techniques help businesses reduce existing threats or recognize potential risks before they result in a breach.
Making Conversation a Robot’s Command
Recent advances help close the gap between high-level specifications of robotic behavior, and low-level implementations of robotic platforms.
Utilizing Microservice Architectures in Scalable Web Applications
Microservices can be deployed and scaled independently, which facilitates faster development cycles and more resilient applications.
Technical Marvels, Part 3: The Yupana
Yupanas were not only calculating devices, they were possibly also used as architectural models for urban planning.
The chip industry chases advances in lithography to support the next generation of computing devices.
Machine learning and large generative models are emerging that suggest an ability to predict life events.
CS2023: Global Undergraduate Computer Science Curricula
CS2023 builds upon CS2013, the 2013 computer science curricular guidelines.
Leveraging Rust in High-Performance Web Services
Exploring Rust’s steep learning curve and strong impact on Web services.
Artificial Intelligence Is the Crisis We Need
Raising questions about the future of citation metrics and the effectiveness of peer review in a world where authorship may not solely reside with humans.
LLMs hold the potential to work around behavioral problems and make robots more socially acceptable.
When Colorless Green DNNs Sleep Furiously in an Unexplainable Fantasy
Let's bring some sanity to the discussion of LLMs and start thinking seriously about alternatives that could help produce AI that is explainable, reliable, and scalable.
Assistive Robotics Takes a Step Forward
Aiming to transform the lives of the disabled with technologies.
Have technical limitations of the Internet architecture contributed to the rise of doom scrolling on social media?]
Pioneering Sustainable IT with Green Computing
How energy-efficient solutions support sustainable IT.
Builders increasingly are using the additive manufacturing process to “print” new homes.
The Dangers of Digitization, and The Importance of Data Backup
Digitization excludes many people from social or economic life, while the importance of data backups cannot be overestimated.
A Brief History of Embodied Artificial Intelligence, and its Outlook
Examining the history, current state, and future of Embodied Artificial Intelligence.
Optimizing Energy Efficiency in Datacenters with Advanced Cooling Technologies
As hubs of computing power, datacenters are essential for powering the digital services we rely on daily, from cloud computing to artificial intelligence. However, this surge in datacenter operations has also resulted in a significant spike in energy consumption and environmental impact. Traditional cooling methods have proven to be energy-intensive and inefficient in meeting the […]
Technical Perspective: The Software-Centric Approach of SYNERGY
The advantages of a software rather than hardware approach to FPGA virtualization.
Compiler-Driven FPGA Virtualization with SYNERGY
SYNERGY virtualizes FPGAs to be used effectively in datacenters.
Nand to Tetris: Building a Modern Computer System from First Principles
CS course walks students through a step-by-step construction of a complete, general-purpose computer system—hardware and software—in one semester.
Biocomputation: Moving Beyond Turing with Living Cellular Computers
The information processing link between computer science and molecular biology.
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