Every February I agonize over the Valentine's Day Dilemma. How can I show my girlfriend, whom I'll call Emily, how much I love her?
Scientific American From ACM Opinion | February 13, 2018
A long time ago, when I was working on my Ph.D. research, I learned to use supercomputers to track the complex 3-D motions of gas blown into space by dying stars...NPR From ACM Opinion | February 9, 2018
I'll make this short: The thing you're doing now, reading prose on a screen, is going out of fashion.
The New York Times From ACM Opinion | February 9, 2018
When I first met John Perry Barlow, we became instant soulmates. While that sentence is true for me, it also applies to probably 10,000 other people.
Wired From ACM Opinion | February 8, 2018
"Before I became an astronaut, I had seen stories of astronauts who had seen white flashes from radiation while they flew in space," says Terry Virts, a former...BBC News From ACM Opinion | February 8, 2018
Lt. Saul Jaeger, who commands the traffic unit at the Mountain View Police Department, remembers the first time a few years ago when he was given a demo of Waymo's...Ars Technica From ACM Opinion | February 6, 2018
Imagine it is the spring of 2019. A bottom-feeding website, perhaps tied to Russia, "surfaces" video of a sex scene starring an 18-year-old Kirsten Gillibrand.
...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | February 5, 2018
We recently had an interesting exchange with bunnie Huang, hardware guru and creator of Chumby, NetTV, and the Novena laptop, among other things. He's also theHacking...IEEE Spectrum From ACM Opinion | February 5, 2018
We are living in the midst of a profound technological restructuring of human society. The machines that once only frolicked in science fiction have begun to infiltrate...Wired From ACM Opinion | February 5, 2018
The other day my barber asked me whether he should put all his money in Bitcoin. And the truth is that if he'd bought Bitcoin, say, a year ago he'd be feeling pretty...The New York Times From ACM Opinion | January 30, 2018
For all the excitement surrounding the gene-editing tool CRISPR, it is not that efficient or precise. It's hard to make many changes at once.
Nature From ACM Opinion | January 30, 2018
American poet Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "Every artist was first an amateur." He likely never thought those words would apply to machines.
Scientific American From ACM Opinion | January 29, 2018
Alongside the excitement and hype about our growing reliance on artificial intelligence, there's fear about the way the technology works.
The New York Times From ACM Opinion | January 25, 2018
On January 3, the world learned about a series of major security vulnerabilities in modern microprocessors. Called Spectre and Meltdown, these vulnerabilities were...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | January 23, 2018
The National Science Foundation and the National Science Board have just released their biennial "Science & Engineering Indicators," a voluminous document describing...The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | January 23, 2018
Google CEO Sundar Pichai believes artificial intelligence could have "more profound" implications for humanity than electricity or fire, according to recent comments...Newsweek From ACM Opinion | January 22, 2018