What Can the Maker Movement Teach Us About the Digitization of Creativity?
Experimenting with the creative process.
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The Transformation of Patient-Clinician Relationships with AI-based Medical Advice
A "bring your own algorithm" era in healthcare.
The Pascal programming language creator Niklaus Wirth reflects on its origin, spread, and further development.
Driving the Cloud to True Zero Carbon
Climate change has come to the fore as a business concern, and this compels the business leaders of computing technology companies to be on the side of progress toward true zero carbon.
Half-Baked High-Resolution Referencing
I wonder whether time resolution, in addition to space resolution, might be a functionality to instantiate. Assuming that this would be an interesting capability, it remains to figure out how to implement it.
In Moshe Vardi's "Where Have All the Domestic Graduate Students Gone?," the short but woefully incomplete answer is that the wage premium for a Ph.D. in CS is simply too small to justify foregoing five years of industry-level salary.
When Permissioned Blockchains Deliver More Decentralization Than Permissionless
Considerations for the governance of distributed systems.
CAPE: A Framework for Assessing Equity throughout the Computer Science Education Ecosystem
Examining both the leading indicators of equity in CS and the lagging indicators of student outcomes.
Cybersecurity: Is It Worse than We Think?
Evaluating actual implementations and practices versus stated goals.
Polanyi’s Revenge and AI’s New Romance with Tacit Knowledge
Artificial intelligence systems need the wisdom to know when to take advice from us and when to learn from data.
Let’s Not Dumb Down the History of Computer Science
Donald Knuth on the best way to recognize the history of computer science.
Bringing Stability to Wireless Connections
2020 Marconi Prize recipient Andrea Goldsmith on MIMO technologies, millimeter-wave communications, and her goals as the new dean of Princeton University's School of Engineering and Applied Science.
2021: Computing’s Divided Future
China and the West's fundamental systemic differences and growing geopolitical competition are increasingly open. The new reality is pulling the computing community apart, and spilling over into the academic and research communities.
Reboot the Computing-Research Publication Systems
The virtualization of conferences due to COVID-19 has sharpened my conviction that the computing-research publication system is badly broken and in need of a serious reboot.
Boeing’s 737 MAX: A Failure of Management, Not Just Technology
Tracing the trajectory of management and engineering decisions resulting in systemic catastrophe.
Cybersecurity Research for the Future
Considering the wide range of technological and societal trade-offs associated with cybersecurity.
Deliberating on how to regulate—or not regulate—online speech in the era of evolving social media.
Insights for AI from the Human Mind
How the cognitive sciences can inform the quest to build systems with the flexibility of the human mind.
Excessive Use of Technology: Can Tech Providers be the Culprits?
Seeking to assess the possible responsibility of tech providers for excessive use patterns.
Manufactured goods today do not seem to take into account the possibility of repair.
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