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In highly effective environments, operational and analytic data cycles never end.
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Technical Marvels, Part 5: Chess Automatons
Chess has been a touchstone for artificial intelligence.
Confuseds, Strategists, and Snoozers: A Whimsical Odyssey Through the Maze of Scholarly Reviews
The academic spirit perseveres amidst the tragicomedy of peer review, driven by a mix of stubbornness, the thrill of discovery, and the hope that one day the review process will be more conducive to scientific advancement.
Establishing Standards for Embodied AI
The complexity of embodied AI systems underlines the imperative need for a standards framework to ensure their safety, reliability, performance, and usability.
A Pioneer in Using AI to Teach Reading
A researcher predicted Mostow’s daughter would learn to read faster with an automated feedback system. Twenty years of productive research and development followed.
A Versal Story in the Era of Hardware AI: Why the Chinese Could Win
Chinese integrators are the ones making the chip company's technology more accessible to a wide range of developers.
The U.K. Post Office Scandal: Software Malpractice At Scale
Accounting software should be predictable and boring, not falsely send people to prison. But that's what it did.
Minimal Sufficiency and AI Governance
A voluntary standard for AI accountability must meet known needs of the current community and unknown needs of the future.
Building Foundation Models for Embodied Artificial Intelligence
Delving into the tradeoffs of building foundation models for embodied AI systems.
The Evolution of User Interface Design
Mastering the transition from graphical to gesture-based interfaces..
Ensuring application security from design to operation with DevSecOps.
Technical Marvels, Part 4: Leonardo da Vinci’s Robots
Polymath Leonardo da Vinci designed a wide range of machines and instruments over 500 years ago.
A Four-Stage Approach for Hiring Women on Your Engineering Team
Women’s success does not mean men lose something; there is a future where everyone can succeed.
Data Breach Prevention: Strategies For Proactive Cyber Defense
Data breach prevention techniques help businesses reduce existing threats or recognize potential risks before they result in a breach.
Work-Family Balance in Academia?
I wish someone had been there to prepare me, and that I didn't have to learn all these lessons the hard way myself.
Utilizing Microservice Architectures in Scalable Web Applications
Microservices can be deployed and scaled independently, which facilitates faster development cycles and more resilient applications.
Technical Marvels, Part 3: The Yupana
Yupanas were not only calculating devices, they were possibly also used as architectural models for urban planning.
CS2023: Global Undergraduate Computer Science Curricula
CS2023 builds upon CS2013, the 2013 computer science curricular guidelines.
Leveraging Rust in High-Performance Web Services
Exploring Rust’s steep learning curve and strong impact on Web services.
Maybe the formalization of the tech imperative fails because it's not really about the implications of propositional logic.
Technical Marvels, Part 2: Lebombo and Ishango Bones
A look at some of the earliest mathematical instruments.
The Energy Footprint of Humans and Large Language Models
Each time someone interacts with a large language model (LLM), there is an energy cost in running the model for inference. In addition, there is an energy cost in the preparation and training of the model before it was brought to production. It is relatively easy to look at these costs in terms of kilowatt-hours […]
Artificial Intelligence Is the Crisis We Need
Raising questions about the future of citation metrics and the effectiveness of peer review in a world where authorship may not solely reside with humans.
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