Time To End The vi/Emacs Debate
If you still use Emacs, I feel for you. Perhaps it is time to give vi a try.
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Fog computing offers a more effective way to address the challenges of distributed systems and Internet of Things devices.
Taking Radio Astronomy to the Next Level
After its latest upgrade, a radio telescope in Westerbork, the Netherlands, generates 3.7 terabits of data per second, an enormous data-stream that must be processed in real time.
The Wisdom of Older Technology (Non)Users
Older adults consistently reject digital technology even when designed to be accessible and trustworthy.
Deciding When the Design is Wrong in Programming Languages and Education
When do we decide that errors are due to bad design in programming languges and education?
The Increasing Familiarity of Cryptocurrencies
More and more businesses are accepting cryptocurrencies as payment; here's why.
Teaching Artificial Intelligence and Humanity
Considering rapidly evolving human-machine interactions.
The Next Phase in the Digital Revolution: Intelligent Tools, Platforms, Growth, Employment
Digital technology determines how (and even whether) people work as much as it determines how information produces economic activity.
Technical Perspective: Designing Algorithms and the Fairness Criteria They Should Satisfy
"Which Is the Fairest (Rent Division) of Them All?" focuses on the problem of rent division, and stands out in the variety of techniques applied to arrive at a solution.
Which Is the Fairest (Rent Division) of Them All?
What is a fair way to assign rooms to several housemates, and divide the rent between them? We develop a general algorithmic framework that enables the computation of solutions in polynomial time that optimize a criterion of social justice, subject to the envy freeness constraint.
Ethics for Tech must address how professional issues play out in the workplace, in real life.
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Technologies Support Dementia Patients
A small but growing category of assistive technologies is aimed at people with cognitive disabilities.
Cartoon Clinicians: Precursors of Virtual Therapy?
Soldiers in one study were more open with a virtual character about post-traumatic stress symptoms than with human doctors.
A new generation of portable scientific instruments is taking shape, thanks to mobile processors and innovative data-gathering techniques.
Feeling Sounds, Hearing Sights
A new wave of sensory substitution devices work to assist people who are blind or deaf.
Popularity Spikes Hurt Future Chances For Viral Propagation of Protomemes
Once a meme gets popular, it will have to evolve to keep being popular.
Evolutionary Programming Converts Darwinism Into Algorithms
Evolutionary computation strategies include a multitude of biologically inspired algorithms for optimizing problems, often those with too many variables to compare all possible scenarios.
AI Tutoring: Genius on My Shoulder
Students are being given access to an incredibly smart digital friend with unlimited patience, programmed to sense the best way to impart knowledge.
In Pursuit of an Artificial Brain
Researchers are creating artificial life to take thinking beyond the human realm; the approach could redefine artificial intelligence.
The Quantum Threat to Cryptocurrencies
Quantum computing could fundamentally break cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and throw markets into turmoil.
The Real Costs of a Computer Science Teacher Are Opportunity Costs, and Those Are Enormous
It is hard to convince people to become CS teachers (K–12 or University) when the opportunities elsewhere are so lucrative.
Technology-Driven Changes in Work and Employment
Even when surrounded by ubiquitous computing, humans should be encouraged to do what they do better than machines.
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