Communications of the ACM
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Modeling in Engineering and Science
Understanding behavior by building models.
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UCF's 30-Year REU Site in Computer Vision
A unique perspective on experiences encouraging students to focus on further education.
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Hey Google, What's a Moonshot?: How Silicon Valley Mocks Apollo
Fifty years on, NASA's expensive triumph is a widely misunderstood model for spectacular innovation.
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The Robots Have Descended on Trump Country
The growing use of work robots and the deployment of artificial intelligence have been most disruptive in just those areas of the country that provided President...
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Huawei Reveals the Real Trade War With China
If you only scan the headlines, you could be forgiven for thinking that the U.S.-China trade war is mainly about tariffs.
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Facebook's Top AI Scientist Says It's 'Dust' Without Artificial Intelligence
Without artificial intelligence there wouldn't be much left of Facebook as we know it today.
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Alphabet Chairman Struggles With Google CEO's China Strategy
Alphabet Inc. Chairman John Hennessy is unsure about a banner strategy of the company's most-important executive.
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A Chance Gardener
Harvesting open source products and planting the next crop.
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AI Is Not 'Magic Dust' for Your Company, Says Google’s Cloud AI Boss
Andrew Moore is the new head of Google's Cloud AI business, a unit that is striving to make machine-learning tools and techniques more accessible and useful for...
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The Internet Is Splitting in Two Amid .S. Dispute With China
Western bigwigs were a no-show at China's biggest web conference. But in their absence, the local overseers of the nation's technology industry were only too happy...
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Using Any Surface to Realize a New Paradigm for Wireless Communications
Programmable wireless environments use unique customizable software processes rather than traditional rigid channel models.
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How Machine Learning Impacts the Undergraduate Computing Curriculum
The growing importance of machine learning creates challenging questions for computing education.
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The EU's Controversial Digital Single Market Directive
Should copyright enforcement have precedence over the interests of users in information privacy and fundamental freedoms?
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How the Blockchain Could Break Big Tech's Hold on A.I.
Pairing artificial intelligence and the blockchain might be what you would expect from a scammer looking to make a quick buck in 2018.
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Editing the Internet's Second Screen
The great social media cleanup of the past two years hasn't seemed to leave it much cleaner.
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This Tech Would Have Spotted the Secret Chinese Chip in Seconds
According to Bloomberg Businessweek, spies in China managed to insert chips into computer systems that would allow external control of those systems.
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Why Silicon Valley Should Fear Europe's Competition Chief
Margrethe Vestager, the European commissioner for competition, is surely the most feared person in Silicon Valley.
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