The end of classical computer science is coming, and most of us are dinosaurs waiting for the meteor to hit.
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The AI Ethicist’s Dirty Hands Problem
Attempting to balance sometimes-conflicting interests.
Research for Practice: Crash Consistency
Keeping data safe in the presence of crashes is a fundamental problem.
Did Grace Hopper Create the First Compiler?
Heinz Rutishauser (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) is regarded as the developer of automatic programming.
Does peer review change authors' perception of their own papers?
On the Evolution of Languages: Natural, Mathematical, and Computational
Comparing the evolution of natural languages, which are used by people all over the world, with two artificial languages: the language of mathematics and programing languages.
Can Transaction Costs Explain Scale-Free Networks Born by Preferential Attachment?
Centralization leads to more efficient communication and control, which leads to lower transaction costs, which increases the useful work each node can spend on core non-communication tasks.
Researchers identify a security loophole in the wireless standard.
Early Computers in Continental Europe
About the Bark (binär automatisk relä-kalkylator, binary automatic relay computer) and Besk (binär elektronisk sekvens kalkylator, binary electronic sequential computer).
New systems like chatGPT are enormously entertaining, and even mind-boggling, but also unreliable, and potentially dangerous.
Will Free Open Access Publication Become a Mass Phenomenon?
In this blog post, I would like to go over the value of different publication platforms from the point of view of an ordinary scientific researcher.
Developing Unbreakable Phone Screens
Seeking to head off a shattering experience when a smartphone is dropped.
The Legacy of Peer-to-Peer Systems
What happened to peer-to-peer as a technological concept?
I am certainly no philosopher, but as I observe the apparent erosion of agreement on factual evidence in our society. Somewhere along the line, critical thinking must be given the stature it deserves.
Technical Perspective: The ‘Art’ of Automatic Benchmark Extraction
"DIAMetrics," by Shaleen Deep et al., describes a versatile framework from Google for automatic extraction of benchmarks and their distributed execution and performance monitoring.
Quantum Computers and the Universe
Ideas for quantum computing change the way we think about space and time.
The Context Problem in Artificial Intelligence
The artificial intelligence design challenge of teaming humans and machines is difficult because machines cannot read the context of use.
The Four Horsemen of an Ailing Software Project
Don't let the pale rider catch you with an exception.
Building a New Economy: Data, AI, and Web3
How distributed technologies could return more control to users.
FHIR: Reducing Friction in the Exchange of Healthcare Data
A discussion with James Agnew, Pat Helland, and Adam Cole.
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