Call For a Wake Standard for Artificial Intelligence
Suggesting a Voice Name System (VNS) to talk to any object in the world.
Systems and Networking
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The Best Place to Build a Subway
Building projects despite (and because of) existing complex systems.
The Data Science Life Cycle: A Disciplined Approach to Advancing Data Science as a Science
A cycle that traces ways to define the landscape of data science.
Domain-Specific Hardware Accelerators
DSAs gain efficiency from specialization and performance from parallelism.
A Domain-Specific Supercomputer for Training Deep Neural Networks
Google's TPU supercomputers train deep neural networks 50x faster than general-purpose supercomputers running a high-performance computing benchmark.
Some Simple Economics of the Blockchain
Blockchain technology can shape innovation and competition in digital platforms, but under what conditions?
ASIC Clouds: Specializing the Datacenter for Planet-Scale Applications
This paper distills lessons from Bitcoin ASIC Clouds and applies them to other large scale workloads, showing superior TCO (total cost of ownership) versus CPU and GPU.
Facial recognition technology faces opposition from technology industry giants, and from the grass roots.
Bolstering Bandwidth with Dual-Channel Wi-Fi
Looking at solutions to handle growing Wi-Fi traffic.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services networks were hit by a Distributed Denial of Service attack just as the coronavirus pandemic was ramping up.
Exit From the Covid-19 Lockdown: There’s an App for That
The Dutch government wants every citizen to download an app for tracking and tracing potential Covid-19 infections, but the app does not yet exist.
Evolutionary Algorithm Spawns ‘Living Robots’ from Frog Cells
When an evolutionary algorithm generates a successful robot design, the next step is usually to manufacture a physical robot from metals or plastics. Now, researchers are using living cells.
Technology in the Time of Cataclysms
How is the development of technology, and its more basic cousin science, affected during such cataclysmic times?
You Can’t Hide Your Smiling Eyes
New software can determine whether your smile is real or faked.
Implications of the COVID-19 Pandemic
There is no doubt in my mind that our profession and the products it creates will have a prominent role in shaping our post-COVID-19 society.
Detecting/Preventing Infections, and Moving Instruction Online
Terrence DeFranco suggests the Internet of Things could be keeping us safer, and Jeremy Roschelle airs issues related to online instruction.
Artificial intelligence makes sense of radio signals to understand what someone in another room is doing.
How to Curtail Oversensing in the Home
Limiting sensitive information leakage via smart-home sensor data.
The S-shaped curve of technology adoption is a welcome recurrence in an otherwise chaotic adoption world.
Studying Programming in the Neuroage: Just a Crazy Idea?
Programming research has entered the Neuroage.
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