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Ulterior Motives
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Ulterior Motives

2023-2024 ACM Athena Lecturer Margo Seltzer recalls the motivations behind the development of the Berkeley DB database software library, and other achievements...

Microsoft's Chris Young on Bringing AI to Main Street
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Microsoft's Chris Young on Bringing AI to Main Street

Christopher Young, Microsoft's top strategy executive, views non-tech customers as artificial intelligence's big untapped market.

On Being a University's First Chief AI Officer
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On Being a University's First Chief AI Officer

Western University has created a top-level AI role, appointing Mark Daley as its first chief artificial intelligence officer.

Q&A with SLAC Lab Director John Sarrao
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Q&A with SLAC Lab Director John Sarrao

John L. Sarrao starts his tenure as the director of the U.S. Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory following a 26-year career at Los Alamos...

Can AI In School Help Students Be More Creative and Self-Directed?
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Can AI In School Help Students Be More Creative and Self-Directed?

In an interview, University of Washington associate professor Katie Davis discusses her book, "Technology's Child," her research, and how generative AI might support...

Alexey Makarin on Why Social Media Harms Youth Mental Health
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Alexey Makarin on Why Social Media Harms Youth Mental Health

MIT Professor Alexey Makarin, whose research was cited in Social Media and Youth Mental Health, a recent advisory report by the U.S. surgeon general, discusses...

Francis Enyi on Bridging the Healthcare Deficit in Africa
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Francis Enyi on Bridging the Healthcare Deficit in Africa

Francis Enyi, a senior program analyst with Delta State University Teaching Hospital in Nigeri, discusses how his team of software developers, medical personnel...

 Vint Cerf on 3 Mistakes He Made in TCP/IP
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Vint Cerf on 3 Mistakes He Made in TCP/IP

The co-creator of the Internet’s protocols admits his crystal ball had a few cracks.

Talking Software Obsolescence
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Talking Software Obsolescence

An interview with Ross John Anderson, professor of Security Engineering at University of Cambridge.

The Researcher Who Would Teach Machines to Be Fair
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The Researcher Who Would Teach Machines to Be Fair

Princeton computer scientist Arvind Narayanan uses quantitative methods to expose and correct the misuse of quantitative methods.

Five Questions for Brenda Darden Wilkerson
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Five Questions for Brenda Darden Wilkerson

Former AnitaB.org president/CEO discusses AI, diversity in tech, and much more.

AI Expert Weighs In on the Rise of Chatbots
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AI Expert Weighs In on the Rise of Chatbots

Products like ChatGPT will never be truly ready to go unless we have a working AI technology that supports continuous life-long learning.

How ChatGPT Could Revolutionize Education
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How ChatGPT Could Revolutionize Education

Could an AI chatbot change learning forever?

At the Boundary of Machine and Mind
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At the Boundary of Machine and Mind

An interview with researcher Linus Lee.

An AI Bill of Rights
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An AI Bill of Rights

Suresh Venkatasubramanian, professor of Computer Science and Data Science at Brown University, discusses the "Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights" and more.

Gavriella Schuster: Empowering Women in Tech
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Gavriella Schuster: Empowering Women in Tech

Despite efforts to attract women into the tech industry, the representation of women at mid-tier and leadership levels remains depressingly static.

Dense Visual Representations, NeRFs, and LLMs for Robotics
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Dense Visual Representations, NeRFs, and LLMs for Robotics

Google research scientist Pete Florence discusses how robotics can benefit from dense visual representations, neural radiance fields, and large language models....

Adam Dymitruk on Event Modeling
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Adam Dymitruk on Event Modeling

Exploring the event-modeling approach to discovering requirements and designing software systems.

Yoshua Bengio: The Past, Present, and Future of Deep Learning
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Yoshua Bengio: The Past, Present, and Future of Deep Learning

2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient discusses his career, collaborations, deep learning's promise, and directions for the field.

Software Engineering in Physics Research
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Software Engineering in Physics Research

A discussion on how physics research scientists use software.
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