Communications of the ACM
AI Ruined Chess. Now, It's Making the Game Beautiful Again
Former world champion Vladimir Kramnik teamed up with AI researchers at Alphabet's DeepMind lab to test game variants that can…
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The Future of American Industry Depends on Open Source Tech
Open source has two important, and somewhat counterintuitive, advantages: speed and security.
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Why Did We Go Digital?
Princeton University's Ken Steiglitz feels an attachment to the analog.
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Autonomous Vehicle Safety: Lessons from Aviation
How more than 25years of experience with aviation safety-critical systems can be applied to autonomous vehicle systems.
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A Recent Renaissance in Privacy Law
Considering the recent increased attention to privacy law issues amid the typically slow pace of legal change.
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Q&A: Google's Luiz André Barroso
Google Vice President of Engineering Luiz André Barroso discusses his work, including improvements to the datacenter, Google Maps, and hardware design.
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AI Authorship?
Considering the role of humans in copyright protection of outputs produced by artificial intelligence.
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How to Curtail Oversensing in the Home
Limiting sensitive information leakage via smart-home sensor data.
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A Case for Cooperation Between Machines and Humans
A computer scientist argues that the quest for fully automated robots is misguided, perhaps even dangerous. His decades of warnings are gaining more attention. ...
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What Role for Antitrust in Regulating Platforms?
Using regulation to protect competition and innovation.
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Secure Development Tools and Techniques Need More Research That Will Increase Their Impact and Effectiveness in Practice
Secure development is an important and pressing problem.
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The Role of Robotics in Managing Public Health and Infectious Diseases
As the COVID-19 epidemic escalates, robots have the potential to be deployed for disinfection, delivering medications and food, measuring vital signs, and assisting...
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Let Evolution Design Your Robot
A U.K. research project uses evolutionary principles to design robots to help dismantle decommissioned nuclear power plants.
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The U.S. Needs a High-Tech Manhattan Project
The United States needs to wrest the high-tech initiative from China and re-establish American dominance in telecommunications, computation, artificial intelligence...
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Google AI Chief Jeff Dean on Machine Learning Trends in 2020
Google AI chief Jeff Dean discusses Google's early work on the use of ML to create semiconductors for machine learning, the impact of Google's BERT on conversational...
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Stop Saying Driverless Cars Will Help Old People
And maybe start including them in research instead of just assuming we know what they want.
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Why Google's Quantum Supremacy Milestone Matters
Quantum computing is the first computing paradigm since Turing expected to change the fundamental scaling behavior of algorithms, making certain tasks feasible...
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Why American Workers Need to Be Protected From Automation
Bill de Blasio, New York City mayor and a candidate for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, says that as president he would issue a robot tax for corporations...
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Inspired by the Home of the Future
2018 ACM Prize in Computing recipient Shwetak Patel pushes old tools to new heights.
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