It is crucial to guarantee the reproducibility of reported results, but don't forget to make research artifacts reusable for the scientific communityNature Computational Science From ACM Opinion | July 28, 2021
To predict how society and political systems might actually respond to warming, upgrade integrated assessment models.
Nature From ACM Opinion | June 11, 2021
Collaborations between theorists and experimentalists are crucial for accelerating research.Nature Computational Science From ACM Opinion | June 1, 2021
A white paper from Partnership on AI advises on navigating the risks of AI research and responsible publication.
Nature Machine Intelligence From ACM Opinion | May 20, 2021
To help humanity solve fundamental problems of cooperation, scientists need to reconceive artificial intelligence as deeply social.
Nature From ACM Opinion | May 6, 2021
Yoshua Bengio is one of three computer scientists who last week shared the US$1-million A. M. Turing award—one of the field's top prizes.
Nature From ACM Opinion | April 4, 2019
Young animals gallop across fields, climb trees and immediately find their feet with enviable grace after they fall.
Nature From ACM Opinion | March 29, 2019
The hunt is on for materials that have exotic properties, to enhance quantum computers, touch screens and electronic displays, and to double the efficiency of solar...Nature From ACM Opinion | March 1, 2019
Researchers: Felice Frankel will make photographers of you all. Photography—both macro- and microscopic—is an essential tool in science, because pictures are both...Nature From ACM Opinion | February 5, 2019
The trolls and orcs in The Lord of the Rings films aren't real. The dragons and dire wolves on the hit television show Game of Thrones are simulated. The dinosaurs...Nature From ACM Opinion | January 17, 2019
Lasers first emerged nearly 60 years ago, but the idea of using powerful beams of heat or light is hardly new.
Nature From ACM Opinion | January 9, 2019
Will 2019 be the year when quantum computers show they have the right stuff? Google says so; one of the company's labs, in Santa Barbara, California, has promised...Nature From ACM Opinion | December 19, 2018
Late in 2016, then-US President Barack Obama mused in an interview with The New Yorker magazine that he had probably been elected because his campaign had begun...Nature From ACM Opinion | October 11, 2018
Alan Turing's crucial unscrambling of German messages in the Second World War was a tour de force of codebreaking.
Nature From ACM Opinion | September 4, 2018
Picture a computer. Now I'm going to go out on a limb and say that you were probably thinking of your laptop, or maybe even your smartphone if you're being smart...Nature From ACM Opinion | August 27, 2018
In the midst of growing public concern over artificial intelligence (AI), privacy and the use of data, Brent Hecht has a controversial proposal: the computer-science...Nature From ACM Opinion | July 27, 2018