The Evolution of Mathematical Software
Tracing how software and algorithms follow the hardware.
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
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Seeing Beneath the Skin with Computational Photography
Optical imaging technologies hold powerful potential in healthcare.
Finding an Alternate Way Forward with AI
Former Googlers Timnit Gebru and Alex Hanna are thinking about outcomes at their Distributed AI Research Institute.
What Does Meta AI’s Diplomacy-Winning Cicero Mean for AI?
Hint: It's not all about scaling.
AI is Solving Classical Computing’s Quantum Problem
Quantum computers, once thought to be "superior" to classical computers, increasingly are being seen as yet another accelerator for specialized problems, according to IBM.
Business, entertainment, and fashion companies already are staking their claims in this enhanced virtual world.
Reliability at Multiple Stages in a Data Analysis Pipeline
Data-centric methods designed to increase end-to-end reliability of data-driven decision systems.
Technical Perspective: The Power of Low-Power GPS Receivers for Nanosats
The work explored in "Hummingbird," by Sujay Narayana et al., focuses on the energy consumption of a typical GPS receiver and its operational challenges in a nanosat setting.
Hummingbird: An Energy-Efficient GPS Receiver for Small Satellites
In this work, we elucidate the design of a low-cost, low-power GPS receiver for small satellites.
An ambitious reporter's quest to interview a reclusive tech CEO leads her to find out who really pulls the strings.
Determining AI's sentience, its capacity to experience feelings and sensations, will take some time.
Deep Learning is Human, Through and Through
At the 9th Heidelberg Laureate Forum, a diverse panel of researchers discussed the applications and implications of deep learning.
Reflections on the AI Bill of Rights Blueprint
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has released a "Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights." I reflect on this milestone document in the context of educational systems.
A new technology, broadly deployed, raises profound questions about its impact on American society.
Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes?
The more I think about the potential brittleness of neural networks and recognition or decision making, the more I wonder how we will be able to tell when a neural network choice or decision is incorrect.
Combining neural networks with symbolic representations might make them more versatile and dependable.
Applied AI Teaches Handwriting
In an increasingly digital world, how do you teach students cursive handwriting?
Technical Perspective: Traffic Classification in the Era of Deep Learning
"Traffic Classification in an Increasingly Encrypted Web," by Iman Akbari et al., does a great job in reviewing related work in the network traffic classification space.
Traffic Classification in an Increasingly Encrypted Web
In this paper, we design a novel feature engineering approach used for encrypted Web protocols, and develop a neural network architecture based on stacked long short-term memory layers and convolutional neural networks.
AI Supports Displaced Peoples, Refugees in Ukraine and Beyond
Artificial intelligence is playing a growing role in refugee relief and resettlement programs.
Four Conversations About Human-Centric AI
I discuss the different conversations, their limits, and what we really need to be talking about.
New Research Vindicates Fodor and Pylyshyn: No Explainable AI Without ‘Structured Semantics’
In this short article, we generalize recent research results that clearly make the point that "there can be no explanation without semantics."
Technical Perspective: Physical Layer Resilience through Deep Learning in Software Radios
"Polymorphic Wireless Receivers," by Francesco Restuccia and Tommaso Melodia, tackles the problem of physical layer resilience in wireless systems from a completely new perspective.
Advancing the Ability of Robots to Help
ACM Athena Lecturer Ayanna Howard considers the benefits of robotics and the potential drawbacks of overtrust.
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