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The AI that our top scientists and engineers are now building to advance American security and prosperity could instead sow the…
The Wall Street Journal| December 5, 2019
Landing in U.S. theaters last week, Ridley Scott's The Martian is being acclaimed as one of the most realistic portrayals of human space exploration ever filmed...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | October 8, 2015
NASA scientists announced today the best evidence yet that Mars, once thought dry, sterile and dead, may yet have life in it: Liquid water still flows on at least...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | September 29, 2015
I grew up in a tiny New York City apartment, packed in alongside our four cats and my father's immense personal library of some 3000 books.Scientific American From ACM Opinion | September 10, 2015
Famed science-fiction writer Fredric Brown (1906–1972) delighted in creating the shortest of short stories. "Answer," published in 1954, encapsulated a prescient...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | August 14, 2015
Having just orbited our way through another summer solstice, it feels like time to let slip some more speculative ideas before the hot days of the northern hemisphere...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | June 26, 2015
Imagine a trio of aerobatic aircraft. Over the years they've gotten very good at their routine. But they want to add another five or six or seven members.Scientific American From ACM Opinion | April 24, 2015
In their new book, Moore's Law: The Life of Gordon Moore, Silicon Valley's Quiet Revolutionary, authors Arnold Thackray, David C. Brock and Rachel Jones chronicle...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | April 17, 2015
Last November in the town of Wuzhen, China hosted its first large international summit on Internet governance and cybersecurity.Scientific American From ACM Opinion | March 5, 2015
The robots are no longer coming; they are here. And the law's response has been lacking. What is the best approach for integrating this transformative technology...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | December 12, 2014
Machine learning—an area of AI focusing on systems that "learn" from data in order to navigate future similar scenarios—is one of the ways we’ve managed to give...Scientific American From ACM News | December 5, 2014
I taught a class a few years ago at Columbia Business School called "What Makes a Hit a Hit—and a Flop a Flop."Scientific American From ACM Opinion | November 11, 2014
On November 12th 2014 the European Space Agency's Rosetta mission will eject the small robotic lander Philae on a trajectory that should take it down to the surface...Scientific American From ACM Opinion | November 4, 2014