Locating Everyday Objects Using NFC Textiles
This paper builds a Near-Field Communication-based localization system that allows ordinary surfaces to locate surrounding objects with high accuracy in the near-field.
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Nanophotonics Flattens Camera Lenses
Nanoscale meta-optics holds the promise of improved imaging while removing the bulges from smartphones.
The Confounding Saga of Java Web Application Development
Something that has long frustrated me with the Java ecosystem was the number of Web application frameworks.
How Soon Will AI Start Firing Programmers?
Robots will likely revolutionize software engineering ranging from code reviews and bug fixing to automated refactoring, backlog prioritization, and employee appraisals.
Historic Algorithms Help Unlock Shortest-Path Problem Breakthrough
By revisiting key algorithms from computing, a team unlocked hidden efficiency in a long-standing computer science problem.
Shining a Light on the Dark Web
How the Dark Web continues to operate, and why law enforcement will not shut it down anytime soon.
The Smallness of Large Language Models
There is so much more to language and human beings than large language models can possibly master.
Dilemma of the Artificial Intelligence Regulatory Landscape
Navigating the complex and varying AI regulatory landscape.
Research for Practice: OS Scheduling
Better scheduling policies for modern computing systems.
Dispelling the confusion around serverless computing by capturing its essential and conceptual characteristics.
Finding the Right Mix of Creativity and Technology
The original Star Wars and The Matrix were pivotal influences in igniting my unshakable fascination with technology-driven creativity.
A Year Embedded in the Crypto-NFT Space
Carlos Baquero investigates cryptocurrencies and non-fungible tokens.
An effort to bring artificial intelligence into better alignment with our moral aims and finally realize the vision of superior decision making through AI.
Developing tools that better complement natural human capabilities to support a more human-centered vision.
How Many Ways Can You Teach a Robot?
ACM Prize recipient Pieter Abbeel is working to help robots learn, and learn to improve.
Competing Agendas Roil Online Content Moderation Efforts
The EU and the U.S. diverge on how they handle online content moderation.
Face It, Self-Driving Cars Still Haven’t Earned Their Stripes
Edge cases remain a serious, unsolved problem, $100 billion later.
Machine Learning: The Road to Artificial Intelligence?
Machine learning, as it is practiced, has little, if anything to do with AI and the more encompassing endeavor that we call Cognitive Science.
Optical Vectors Beam Multi-Bits
The technique works by modulating the vector-quality factor, instead of the amplitude of a laser.
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