Nobel-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman discusses listening to science, avoiding system noise, and the inevitability of AI over human intelligence.
The Guardian From ACM Opinion | May 18, 2021
In an unprecedented attack of candour, Sean Parker, the 38-year-old founding president of Facebook, recently admitted that the social network was founded not to...The Guardian From ACM News | March 5, 2018
Here's what you don’t want to do late on a Sunday night. You do not want to type seven letters into Google. That's all I did.
The Guardian From ACM News | December 7, 2016
"Is data the new oil?" asked proponents of big data back in 2012 in Forbes magazine. By 2016, and the rise of big data's turbo-powered cousin deep learning, westated Fortune...The Guardian From ACM Opinion | September 28, 2016
There are not many occasions when one can give an unqualified thumbs-up to something the government does, but this is one such occasion.The Guardian From ACM News | January 27, 2016
If you wanted relief from stories about tyre factories and steel plants closing, you could try relaxing with a new 300-page report from Bank of America Merrill which...The Guardian From ACM Opinion | November 11, 2015
Hundreds of game developers, publishers and analysts recently descended on Brighton for the annual Develop conference.The Guardian From ACM Opinion | July 30, 2015
The singularity—or, to give it its proper title, the technological singularity. It's an idea that has taken on a life of its own; more of a life, I suspect, than...The Guardian From ACM Opinion | August 12, 2014
Several years ago, my student and I studied anonymous email server data from 40,000 students, faculty and staff at a large university.The Guardian From ACM Opinion | July 8, 2014
By the time you read these words, much of what has appeared on the screen of whatever device you are using has been dictated by a series of conditional instructions...The Guardian From ACM Opinion | August 20, 2013
At last, some good news about America's dysfunctional patent system: the White House has noticed there's a problem.The Guardian From ACM Opinion | June 5, 2013
"Our imagination is stretched to the utmost," wrote Richard Feynman, the greatest physicist of his day, "not, as in fiction, to imagine things which are not really...The Guardian From ACM Opinion | May 21, 2013
The real capabilities and behavior of the U.S. surveillance state are almost entirely unknown to the American public because, like most things of significance done...The Guardian From ACM Opinion | May 6, 2013