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BLOG@CACM Oct 21 2018

I have had the privilege of meeting, and in some cases closely interacting with, pioneer scientists, technologists, and entrepreneurs, including Nobel, Fields, and Turing winners. It is only fair that I should share some of the traits I have observed in them.

Bertrand Meyer

News Mar 21 2019

Painting On Perovskites at Room Temperature

Hybrid organic-inorganic perovskite semiconductors are suited to many electro-optical applications.

R. Colin Johnson

News Feb 7 2019

Eyes in the Skies

Privacy concerns arise around the New York Police Department's drone program.

Esther Shein

News Dec 20 2018

Consumer Rating Algorithms Score Big with Businesses, Governments

Businesses, universities, and governments increasingly are turning to algorithms to make crucial decisions about how to treat customers and citizens.

Samuel Greengard

Scoring consumers on their value to an organization during their lifetimes.

News Aug 21 2018

Out-doctoring the Doctors

Artificial software can outperform human doctors at reading medical imaging.

Joe Dysart

Computed tomography (CT) scans of a human head.

News Jul 5 2018

RoboFly On the Wall?

The future of insect-sized remote-controlled aerial robots will be electromechanical, rather than cyborg.

R. Colin Johnson

News Jun 7 2018

Thanks For The Memories

Researchers identify a way to digitally code—and boost—brain memory.

Joe Dysart

Electrodes wired into the brain's hippocampus can bypass a damaged memory region (the red X) and restore or reinforce memories.

News May 15 2018

A New Sense for nderwater Robots

Marrja Kruusmaa and her colleagues in Estonia have developed a way for underwater robots to better understand their environment.

Bennie Mols

Maarja Kruusmaa inspects a FILOSE robotic fish.

News Mar 13 2018

Computing Gets Foggy

Fog computing offers a more effective way to address the challenges of distributed systems and Internet of Things devices.

Samuel Greengard

In fog computing, computing and storage of data are distributed in the most logical and efficient manner between the data source and the cloud.

News Mar 8 2018

Taking Radio Astronomy to the Next Level

After its latest upgrade, a radio telescope in Westerbork, the Netherlands, generates 3.7 terabits of data per second, an enormous data-stream that must be processed in real time.

Arnout Jaspers

A portion of the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope.

News Feb 20 2018

Open Source Powers Supercomputing

The Top 500 supercomputers in the world run Linux.

Esther Shein

Opinion Aug 1 2017

Prophets, Seers, and Pioneers

Reflections on historical prognostications for the future.

David P. Anderson

Prophets, Seers, and Pioneers, illustrative photo

News Oct 26 2017

How High Can High-Rises Go?

Digital technologies and new and better materials have stretched the boundaries of building design.

Samuel Greengard

The 1,667-foot tall Taipei 101 Tower, once the world's tallest building.

News Mar 16 2017

In Black Box Algorithms We Trust (or Do We?)

Some issues that arise from the use of algorithms may be due to the data they are fed, rather than their black-box nature.

Bennie Mols

A black box is a device, system, or object that can be viewed in terms of its inputs and outputs, without any knowledge of its internal workings.

Opinion Dec 14 2023

Thus Spake ChatGPT

On the reliability of AI-based chatbots for science communication.

Subhabrata Dutta and Tanmoy Chakraborty

woman in lab coat next to a giant humanoid robotic head which is emitting paper, illustration

News Jan 12 2017

Stepping Stones in an Ocean of Data

An interview with science writer, entrepreneur, and National Public Radio’s “Math Guy,” Keith Devlin.

Bennie Mols

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