The Trouble with Quantum Mechanics
by Steven Weinberg, New York Review of Books The development of quantum mechanics in the first decades of the twentieth century came …
Robot Cars Can’t Count on Us in an Emergency
by John Markoff, The New York Times Three years ago, Google’s self-driving car project abruptly shifted from designing a vehicle that would …
Father of the Internet: ‘AI Stands for Artificial Idiot’
by Frank Konkel, NextGov.com Google chief Internet evangelist Vint Cerf, who shared the 2004 ACM A.M. Turing Award with Robert E. …
Internet of the Future: Massive Mobile Antennae Technology
by Jakob Brodersen, Aalborg University As we move toward a world that is increasingly interconnected with a 5G network that is expected …
Making America’s Power Grid Much, Much Smarter
by Heidi Hall, Vanderbilt University Remember back in 2003 when overgrown trees hit a power line in Cleveland and cut electricity to …
DataTorrent aims to make streaming into an application
by Tony Baer (Ovum) for Big on Data, ZDNet With the deluge of IoT data, streaming analytics is getting impossible to ignore. …
The AI Debate Must Stay Grounded in Reality
by Vincent Conitzer, Prospect Magazine Progress in artificial intelligence has been rapid in recent years. Computer programs are dethroning humans in games ranging …
Why Experts Worry Algorithms Can Do More Harm Than Good
by Mohana Ravindranath, NextGov.com Some tech experts fear the mathematical equations underlying much of today’s data analytics technology could ultimately be dangerous for …
Preventing financial fraud with in-memory computing
by Nikita Ivanov, Bob’s Guide (www.bobsguide.com) Americans currently lose $50 billion a year to a variety of fraudulent practices, according to estimates …
Split-Second Data Mapping
by Rob Matheson, MIT News People generally associate graphic processing units (GPUs) with imaging processing. Developed for video games in the 1990s, modern …