A space-traveling bail-bond agent and the ship's resourceful AI chase fugitives across the galaxy.
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The "uncanny valley effect" may be holding back the field of robotics.
Algorithmic fairness aims to remedy issues stemming from algorithmic bias.
ACM Fellow and A.M. Turing Award recipient Dana Scott reflects on his career.
Transforming Science through Cyberinfrastructure
NSF's vision for the U.S. cyberinfrastructure ecosystem for science and engineering in the 21st century.
FPGAs in Client Compute Hardware
Despite certain challenges, FPGAs provide security and performance benefits over ASICs.
Some small companies are making crowdwork part of their formal business via teams that can complete multifaceted, complex tasks requiring specialized expertise.
Conferences can renew our professional commitment and inspire thought on problems we face.
The future of over-the-counter at-home medical tests is trending toward multiple-malady detection.
Europe’s Blockchain: A Solution Struggling to Find a Problem
Decentralizing the chain of trust to a blockchain–also known as a distributed ledger–causes additional privacy and security issues.
NFT Thefts and What to Do About Them
When someone steals a non-fungible token (NFT), the options for recourse are not always clear.
Why Are There So Many Programming Languages?
Most languages differ less in what they make possible, and more in terms of what they make easy.
On Sampled Metrics for Item Recommendation
This paper investigates sampled metrics and shows that it is possible to improve the quality of sampled metrics by applying a correction, obtained by minimizing different criteria.
The Dynamics of Remembering and Forgetting
Carlos Baquero and Rosa Cabecinhas consider how we make assumptions about authors' roles and relative contributions when reading papers.
Universities, and a growing number of companies, are producing brain-computer interfaces.
Apple’s Challenge to Virtualization Software
Is it okay for security researchers to virtualize software to look for vulnerabilities?
The Future of Information Work
Considering the recent effects of remote work on network structure.
Surveillance Too Cheap to Meter
Stopping Big Brother would require an expensive overhaul of the entire system.
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