Quenching the Flames: AI, Data Help Fight Global Wildfires
New technologies are being deployed to predict, monitor, and fight wildfires as their frequency and ferocity grow.
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Car Hackers Could Drive You Off the Road (or They Might Settle for Money)
Automotive cybersecurity is a cat-and-mouse game, with the good guys and bad guys constantly chasing each other.
Data in the Wild Might be Key to Better Public Health
"Social determinants of health have really come to the forefront in terms of who has been most greatly impacted."
What Every Engineer and Computer Scientist Should Know: The Biggest Contributor to Happiness
Seeking the fundamental factors instrumental to happiness.
After decades of incentivizing the isolation of hardware, software, and algorithm development, the catalysts for closer collaboration are changing the paradigm.
Digital Agriculture for Small-Scale Producers: Challenges and Opportunities
Smart Farming with technologies such as IoT, computer vision, and AI can improve agricultural efficiency, transparency, profitability, and equity for farmers in low-and middle-income countries.
AI-CHD: An AI-Based Framework for Cost-Effective Surgical Telementoring of Congenital Heart Disease
3D heart modeling and AI bring new cardiac surgery to remote and less-developed regions.
Documentation to facilitate communication between dataset creators and consumers.
Exploring the Promise of Quantum Computing
ACM Computing Prize recipient Scott Aaronson discusses his work in quantum complexity.
Good, Better, Best: How Sustainable Should Computing Be?
The grid faces major challenges to decarbonize, and the computing community can and should help accelerate the process.
Computing is an endless frontier in which we have an unending supply of new problems to confront in the search for new solutions.
Seeking Out Camille, and Being Open to Others
Robin K. Hill on overcoming biases against alternative views, and Carlos Baquero on his search for the elusive Camille Noûs.
Errors and biases in artificial intelligence systems often reflect the data used to train them.
What Is the Cost of Living Online?
The cost of powering streaming and other rapidly growing online services will not "take down the Internet."
Charging computer scientists to develop the science needed to best achieve the performance and cost goals of accelerator-level parallelism hardware and software.
Internet freedom is eroding on two fronts: the sheer number of efforts to block access to legitimate information, and the level of sophistication used.
Publishing, The Choice and The Luck
Selecting publishing targets is a process with no simple solutions.
Apple’s Plan to Scan Handset Images Stopped Before It Started
When Apple announced its plan to scan iCloud Photos for child pornography, privacy groups were quick to condemn it.
How to Reduce the Carbon Emissions of Your Website
We can control our online ecological impact.
What Should be Done About Facebook?
The recent release of the Facebook papers by a whistleblower has confirmed that leaders at the company have long known about problems facilitated by their social media, including disinformation, misinformation, hate speech, depression, and more. There's been a lot of talk about regulators stepping in. What kinds of questions, insights, or advice might our community offer these regulators?
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