UC Berkeley’s David A. Patterson Sees the Future After Moore’s Law Hippo Reads Staff Science, Science & Medicine, Technology As professor emeritus of the University of California, Berkeley, David A. Patterson has led a distinguished academic career since joining the faculty in 1977. Patterson developed RISC I, a microprocessor...
How Artificial Intelligence Can Detect – and Create – Fake News Anjana Susarla, The Conversation News, Politics & Economics, Science & Medicine When Mark Zuckerberg told Congress Facebook would use artificial intelligence to detect fake news posted on the social media site, he wasn’t particularly specific about what that meant. Given my own...
New Technologies and the Changes They are Forcing in Business Kevin Gardner Politics & Economics Technology is changing the way business gets done. Computers are becoming faster and more affordable, improving the way the world works. The most important skill now may be to simply keep up with it all. If...
Should Spies Use Secret Software Vulnerabilities? Nir Kshetri Politics & Economics Nir Kshetri, University of North Carolina – Greensboro The recent WannaCry ransomware attack infected about 300,000 computers in 150 countries, and cost computer users thousands of dollars in ransom money...