Robot Teams Win DARPA Subterranean Challenge
The teams behind the real and virtual robots named as winners shared a total of $5 million in prize money.
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Is It Difficult to Bypass the Protection That Uses Big Data?
Big data analytics systems identify signs of unauthorized activity in vast arrays of structured and unstructured data.
AI and Sustainability: Where Are We and What’s Next?
Researchers are exchanging views and proposing solutions as questions around AI's environmental impact become more urgent.
In Space, No One Can Fix Your Sign Errors
Once you've left the Earth, the simple inversion of a critical parameter can cause a mission to fail.
The Outlook for Virtual Meetups
Future online meetings could include people in disparate locations cutting a virtual birthday cake together.
Language Imitation Games and the Arrival of Broad and Shallow AI
On the impact of large language models.
Computers Were Originally Humans
Until the middle of the 20th century, computers were in fact humans who performed calculations.
Post-Quantum Cryptography: Protecting Today from Tomorrow
Crafting more difficult algorithms to protect secrets so they are resilient to future quantum computers is creating, in effect, post-quantum cryptography.
Software Quotes and Counter Quotes
Certain phrases and motifs are repeated in software efforts.
Remaining Connected Throughout Design
Applying the unique experiences of designing technologies for vulnerable communities.
Competitive Compatibility: Let's Fix the Internet, Not the Tech Giants
Seeking to make Big Tech less central to the Internet.
Three books offer varied perspectives on the ascendancy of artificial intelligence.
Software Development in Disruptive Times
Creating a software solution with fast decision capability, agile project management, and extreme low-code technology.
The Role of Professional Certifications in Computer Occupations
Experienced and aspiring computing professionals need to manage their qualifications according to current market needs. That includes certification achievement as well as formal education, experience, and licenses.
Students are Interested in People, and Teachers Value Multiple Languages: ICER 2021 Pointers
A couple of excellent papers from the International Computing Education Research conference.
AI Calling ET: How Artificial Intelligence Supports the Search for Extraterrestrial Life
Researchers increasingly ask AI whether anybody is out there.
Not everyone who questions computational hegemony is appealing to magic, mysticism, or divinity.
A Tale of a Non-Traditional Software Engineer
I entered college to study biomedical engineering, but realized more than halfway through I was more interested in computer science.
Dialing the Trust Level Down to Zero
With cybersecurity under increasing attacks, experts say we should move to the Zero Trust Architecture.
Who is Camille Noûs, who has contributed to hundreds of papers on Google Scholar?
By 2019, I generally thought there wasn't much that could surprise me about organizing meetups. Then Covid-19 hit. I was so wrong.
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