Communications of the ACM
Adam Dymitruk on Event Modeling
Exploring the event-modeling approach to discovering requirements and designing software systems.
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The Father of Web3 Wants You to Trust Less
Gavin Wood believes decentralized technologies are the only hope of preserving liberal democracy
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A Fix-It Job for Government Tech
To build trust in the government, it would help if the website worked
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China's AI Dream and the AI 'Arms Race'
Stanford postdoctoral fellow discusses research exploring impact of AI in a possible U.S.-China power transition
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Self-Supervised Learning and Large Language Models
Stanford PhD student discusses recent research on understanding, building, and controlling pre-trained models
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Imagining AI's Potential for Good
Kai-Fu Lee and Yoky Matsuoka discuss "human-in-the-loop" technology, and how AI might be used for health and caregiving
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AI Is Not A-OK
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt says humans will need to find a way to coexist with artificial intelligence
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Henry Kissinger's Last Crusade: Stopping Dangerous AI
Former secretary of state has a whole new area of interest: artificial intelligence
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Artificial Intelligence Needs to Slow Down
Timnit Gebru believes the incentives around AI research are all wrong
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Meta's Andrew Bosworth on Moving Facebook to the Metaverse
'The magnitude of technological shifts that we are trying to manifest here hasn't been attempted in a long time'
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RL Benchmarking, Climate Impacts of AI, and AI for Law
Stanford JD-PhD candidate Peter Henderson talks about creating robust decision-making systems and ML methods that benefit society
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Anne Carpenter: Her Machine Learning Tools Pull Insights from Cell Images
Computational biologist brings the power of machine learning to researchers seeking answers in mountains of cell images
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Nicki Washington: How Tackling Tech's Diversity Challenges Can Spur Innovation
Computer scientist and educator says technology's diversity problems begin in learning and working environments
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Jeannette Wing: How Computing Has Transformed
Data science expert talks about how trustworthy AI and causal reasoning can help society solve real-world problems
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Infrastructure as Code
Helping software developers use code to access more control over cloud infrastructure assets
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SEC Isn't Hurting Crypto Innovation, Says Industry Leader
Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin says SEC Chair Gensler may need greater authority over crypto industry
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Facebook Whistleblower Sophie Zhang Has a Message for the Tech Press, Too
Zhang came forward with allegations against Facebook long before Frances Haugen, so why has it taken so long for people to listen?
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Meta Learning and Model-Based Reinforcement Learning
Stanford professor Chelsea Finn talks about robotics and meta learning research
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Timnit Gebru's Plan to Rethink Big Tech
Former Google AI ethics chief says whistleblowers working on AI need newer, better, tougher regulatory protections
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Should Oversight of Biased AI Be Left Up to People?
Mounting research shows humans may not be up to the task of reigning in runaway algorithms
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