Automated Evolution Tackles Tough Tasks
Reinforcement learning groups unlabeled data into sets of likes, with the goal of maximizing the cumulative rewards it receives from a human-wrought evaluation function.
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Artificial Intelligence-based companions and chatbots allow people to form deep connections through long-term interactions.
AI Bias: Challenges and Solutions
Where does bias in artificial intelligence come from; once we find it, how can we reduce or eliminate it?
Accelerating Optical Communications with AI
Communications efficiency helps bring photonics to artificial intelligence.
How do we keep track of the truth when bots are becoming increasingly skilled liars?
Looking for truth, when "it's becoming surprisingly easy to distort reality."
Keeping Hackers Off the Electrical Grid
Protecting electrical power delivery networks from incursions.
ChatGPT is giving educators headaches and forcing them to reinvent how classrooms work.
Vector databases, commonly used for similarity search and product recommendations, are a shining light in the era of Artificial Intelligence.
Pen-Based Computing: Still Looking For The Write App
The sector, once popular, is searching for applications and users.
The Promise of Holographic Displays
The next generation of computer screens could incorporate holographic displays, allowing us to interact with images and videos that appear to be presented in three dimensions. Instead of interacting with real-time videos of colleagues during videoconferences, they could be represented as holograms. Medical professionals could be presented with three-dimensional (3D) views of organs and scans […]
Computing pioneer and ACM Fellow William A. Wulf died on March 10, 2023, in Charlottesville, VA, USA. He was 83.
Bob Metcalfe, recipient of the 2022 ACM A.M. Turing Award for his role in the development of Ethernet, briefly considered a career in tennis.
Better Algorithms through Faster Math
The search for new algorithms that could reduce the time needed for multiplication is now at the center of data science.
Using Algorithms to Deliver Disaster Aid
Ensuring the billions of dollars governments send the disaster-stricken actually get to their intended destinations.
Standards to Secure the Sensors That Power IoT
Existing security standards do not always offer sufficient protection to secure the Internet of Things.
Adding artificial intelligence to search engines enables enhanced Search Engine Optimization and Marketing.
The Fall of Silicon Valley Bank
Silicon Valley Bank's closure represents the second-largest bank failure in U.S. history, and the largest since the 2008 financial crisis.
Linking IT’s Energy Consumption to Carbon Emissions
New guidelines aim to measure, and ultimately reduce, the digital impact of the enterprise on the environment.
A Pioneer in Participatory Design Turns 80
Christiane Floyd continues to consider the philosophical and ethical concerns of computer science.
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