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Jost Bürgi and the Discovery of Logarithms
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Jost Bürgi and the Discovery of Logarithms

A forgotten universal genius.

Can AI Be Fair?
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Can AI Be Fair?

The ideology or impartiality of artificial intelligence.

Chat Generative Pre-trained... Testimony
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Chat Generative Pre-trained... Testimony

Questions about testimony as a means of knowledge acquisition may apply to AI chatbots.

Ethics and Equity in AI for Collaborative Learning
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Ethics and Equity in AI for Collaborative Learning

In designing collaborative learning, design AI features using realistic examples of students’ learning; support teachers' awareness; develop students' sense of...

How Soon Will AI Start Firing Programmers?
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How Soon Will AI Start Firing Programmers?

Robots will likely revolutionize software engineering ranging from code reviews and bug fixing to automated refactoring, backlog prioritization, and employee appraisals...

The Interdisciplinarity of Data Science from the Perspective of the MERge Model
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The Interdisciplinarity of Data Science from the Perspective of the MERge Model

Where should management be located in the data science Venn diagram?

Face It, Self-Driving Cars Still Haven't Earned Their Stripes
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Face It, Self-Driving Cars Still Haven't Earned Their Stripes

Edge cases remain a serious, unsolved problem, $100 billion later.

Duped No More: Navigating the Maze of Social Engineering Schemes
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Duped No More: Navigating the Maze of Social Engineering Schemes

The best way to guard against becoming a target of social engineering is to familiarize yourself with the strategies, psychological hooks, and technological means...

Machine Learning: the Road to Artificial Intelligence?
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Machine Learning: the Road to Artificial Intelligence?

In the mid-1990s, data-driven, statistical, and empirical methods have taken the field of artificial intelligence (AI) by storm. In the last two decades, machine...

Federated Learning: How Private Is It Really?
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Federated Learning: How Private Is It Really?

Just when it looks like Federated Learning is able to keep local data private, out comes a study to deflate us.

ChatGPT in Computer Science Education: Freshmen's Perceptions
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ChatGPT in Computer Science Education: Freshmen's Perceptions

Exploring freshmen's conceptions of the impact of ChatGPT on computer science education.

Coaxing Performance from the Complexity of HPC
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Coaxing Performance from the Complexity of HPC

Network latency and HPC performance.

Stop Judging AI Using Human Exams
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Stop Judging AI Using Human Exams

Computer scientists should inform the public that human tests are not a valid way to judge the quality of an AI model, nor a good way to compare AI models to human...

Bigger than a Blackbox
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Bigger than a Blackbox

When we ask how deep learning works, are we asking which node represents the answer to "animal, vegetable, or mineral?"

The Dissemination Game: Incentives of In-Person vs Virtual Participation
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The Dissemination Game: Incentives of In-Person vs Virtual Participation

Incentives are changing the effectiveness of computer science conferences, but perhaps better conference design can improve them.

Why They're Worried
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Why They're Worried

Summarizing experts' motivations for signing the 'Pause Letter.'

Is Bard Better than ChatGPT?
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Is Bard Better than ChatGPT?

A test should show whether Bard is more powerful than ChattGPT or AI-powered Microsoft Bing.

Egalitarian Authorship
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Egalitarian Authorship

Is there a way to provide egalitarian authorship to papers?

Lessons from PL/I:  A Most Ambitious Programming Language
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Lessons from PL/I: A Most Ambitious Programming Language

PL/I stands for Programming Language 1, and its aim was to be the Highlander of programming languages. 

VOT Challenge: Computer Vision Competition
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VOT Challenge: Computer Vision Competition

VOT Challenge is one of the outstanding competitions in computer vision. At the end of this important event this year, I would like to share my opinions about this...
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