Linus Torvalds created the original core of the Linux operating system in 1991 as a computer science student at the University of Helsinki in Finland.IEEE Spectrum From ACM Opinion | March 30, 2016
Marvin Minsky was one of the founders of artificial intelligence, and with John McCarthy, he created MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory...IEEE Spectrum From ACM Opinion | March 30, 2016
Theoretical physicist David DiVincenzo is widely viewed as one of the pioneers of quantum computing. He authored a 1996 paper (PDF) outlining five criteria he predicted...IEEE Spectrum From ACM Opinion | October 30, 2015
A vision of fully autonomous, self-driving cars allowing human owners to nap or read in the car seems to come from the future.IEEE Spectrum From ACM Opinion | October 27, 2015
Le's be clear: This is a parlor trick, not neuroscience. Nonetheless, with the help of some friends, I was able to make a toy shark fly through the air using brain...IEEE Spectrum From ACM Opinion | September 29, 2015
The overeager adoption of big data is likely to result in catastrophes of analysis comparable to a national epidemic of collapsing bridges.IEEE Spectrum From ACM Opinion | October 23, 2014
When Microsoft was developing its Kinect 3D sensor, a critical task was to calibrate its algorithms to rapidly and accurately recognize parts of the human body,...IEEE Spectrum From ACM Opinion | January 17, 2012