One night in late July 2014, a journalist from the Chinese newspaper Southern Weeklyinterviewed a 17-year-old Chinese girl named Xiaoice (pronounced Shao-ice).Nautilus From ACM Opinion | February 9, 2016
Laura Poitras has a talent for disappearing. In her early documentaries like My Country, My Country and The Oath, her camera seems to float invisibly in rooms where...Wired From ACM Opinion | February 5, 2016
It's one thing to play the arcade game Whac-A-Mole by swinging around an oversized mallet; it's far easier to whack those moles virtually, controlling the mallet...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | February 2, 2016
Tom was discussing the film star Tang Wei with a chatbot named XiaoIce, and the bot was excited: "A goddess! She stole my heart … and then went off and married!"...Wired From ACM Opinion | January 26, 2016
"I'm a skeptic of 3-D, but when I saw the paintings I knew I had to use it," Werner Herzog told Judith Thurman in 2010, after the New York première of his documentary...The New Yorker From ACM Opinion | January 13, 2016
For a story that takes place "a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away" a great deal of the technology in the "Star Wars" series actually has parallels today on...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | December 14, 2015
For the last 30 years, the MIT Lab has been a breeding ground for technological progress that’s pushed the world into the future.Wired From ACM Opinion | December 4, 2015
The idea of a drill-wielding hacker who runs a deep-web empire selling drugs to teens seems like a fantasy embodying the worst of digital technology.The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | December 4, 2015
A strawberry Christmas cake, sexy pants, a pool table, three red jet planes, a hippy bandana, a dog sled, a jetpack, a pair of Adidas trainers, a Tudor throne,an...New Scientist From ACM Opinion | November 24, 2015
Until we moderate our fascination with creating ideas, we will not achieve the rate of innovations we seek.
Peter J. Denning, Nicholas Dew From Communications of the ACM | December 1, 2015