Communications of the ACM
Intel's Gordon Moore Speculates on the Future of Tech and the End of Moore's Law
Gordon Moore appeared in person to talk about the 50th anniversary of Moore's Law, the prediction that he made that has fueled
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Does Artificial Intelligence Pose a Threat?
After decades as a sci-fi staple, artificial intelligence has leapt into the mainstream.
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40 Busy Years Later, a Microsoft Founder Considers His Creation
Looking at Microsoft’s sprawling product line and 118,000 or so employees, it’s easy to forget that the company started with one modest product made by two ambitious...
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Virtual Zombie Apocalypse Can Prepare Us for Disaster
Why use online games to study our responses to catastrophic events?
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Neil deGrasse Tyson's Latest Science Projects
If everyone else is drinking beer, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson orders a milkshake.
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There Is Actually One Thing You Can Do to Fight the Surveillance Machine
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Q&A; With UC Davis Computer Science Assistant Professor Yong Jae Lee
University of California, Davis assistant professor Yong Jae Lee discusses his computer vision research. In one study, he developed an algorithm that automatically...
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The Shape of Things to Come
In recent months, Sir Jonathan Ive, the forty-seven-year-old senior vice-president of design at Apple—who used to play rugby in secondary school, and still has...
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Astro Teller, Google's ‘Captain of Moonshots,' on Making Profits at Google X
Google is all over the place.
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The Technion’s Peretz Lavie on Technology and Education
What Stanford University is to Silicon Valley, the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology is to Israel’s booming tech sector.
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J. Craig Venter on DNA and Life's Mysteries
J. Craig Venter is in the life business.
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Nanotech Pioneer Langer Wins Award by Thinking Small
Bioengineer Robert Langer has spent his career looking for the next not-so-big thing.
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Tim O'Reilly Explains the Internet of Things
Tim O'Reilly has been at the cutting edge of the Internet since it went commercial.
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Boston Researcher Cynthia Breazeal Is Ready to Bring Robots Into the Home. Are You?
The MIT Media Lab's Personal Robots Group flanks the soaring atrium on the fourth floor of the Wiesner Building, a wall of metal panels along the southern edge...
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Google CEO on Moonshots: Find a 'Zero Million Dollar' Research Problem
To succeed at a moonshot, you need curiosity, impulse, and a problem that no one seems to be investing in.
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William Gibson: I Never Imagined Facebook
Even if you've never heard of William Gibson, you're probably familiar with his work.
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Space-Time Visionary
Thanks to theoretical physicist Kip Thorne, real science is embedded in Christopher Nolan's film Interstellar, in which explorers seek a new home for humankind.
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Megan Smith: 'You Can Affect Billions of People'
Now that you work at the White House, approximately how many times a day do you find yourself thinking, God, we did this so much better at Google?
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In Conversation Marc Andreessen
It's not hard to coax an opinion out of Marc Andreessen.
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5 Insights from Vint Cerf on Bitcoin, Net Neutrality and More
When Vint Cerf, often called the "father of the Internet," is speaking, it's wise to listen.
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