Conjoined Twins: Artificial Intelligence and the Invention of Computer Science
How artificial intelligence and computer science grew up together.
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Trust Is Not Enough: Accuracy, Error, Randomness, and Accountability in an Algorithmic Society
Searching for improved algorithmic accountability.
Decentraland: The Alleged Decentralization of Blockchain Applications
Breaking down the blockchain.
Technical Perspective: FoundationDB Performs Balancing Act
FoundationDB, as explored in "FoundationDB: A Distributed Key-Value Store," by Jingyu Zhou et al., pioneered the development of a scalable distributed key-value store with strong consistency guarantees.
Bob Metcalfe, who co-invented Ethernet networking technology, continues to take on new challenges as a computational engineer.
How Did Scientists Succumb to Aunt Edna? The Dangers of a Superintelligent AI is Fiction
Speaking of the existential threat of AI is science fiction, and bad science fiction for that matter because it is not based on anything we know about science, logic, and nothing we even know about ourselves.
A Pioneer in Participatory Design Turns 80
Christiane Floyd continues to consider the philosophical and ethical concerns of computer science.
Spyware Lurks in Android Smartphones
Google's decision to allow its operating system to install third-party apps makes Android smartphones targets for spyware.
Disentangling Hype from Practicality: On Realistically Achieving Quantum Advantage
What are the promising applications to realize quantum advantage?
ChatGPT, Can You Tell Me a Story?
An exercise in challenging the true creativity of generative AI.
AlphaFold Spreads through Protein Science
Based on machine learning, DeepMind's code now lies at the heart of a variety of protein-structure tools and workflows. It may ultimately be replaced by models that are bigger but faster.
Locking Down Secure Open Source Software
Can even secure open source software ever be considered truly safe?
Updates, Threats, and Risk Management
Revisiting a recent column considering security updates.
Ethics as a Participatory and Iterative Process
Facilitating ethical reflection, inquiry, and deliberation.
Reinventing Backend Subsetting at Google
Designing an algorithm with reduced connection churn that could replace deterministic subsetting.
Development Use Cases for Semantics-Driven Modeling Languages
Choosing underlying semantic theories and definition techniques must closely follow intended use cases for the modeling language.
From Code Complexity Metrics to Program Comprehension
Understanding code depends not only on the code but also on the brain.
Artificial Intelligence Still Can’t Form Concepts
Concepts and abstraction are key to unlocking AI's full potential.
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