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A Sobering Message About the Future at AI's Biggest Party
Leaders in artificial intelligence warn that progress is slowing, big challenges remain, and simply throwing more computers at a problem isn't sustainable.
Live Updates: U.K. Votes in General Election
Britons are voting in pubs, churches, schools and other polling stations for their next government on Thursday, an important moment for the deeply divided country.
Rogue P. Bigham
ugh, this whole "Boris Winning" thing does not bode well for Trump being defeated next year :(
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Attached a Nicolas Cage photo instead of your resume? Here’s what not to do next
Here’s what not to do next.
LightAnchors: Appropriating Point Lights for Spatially-Anchored Augmented Reality Interfaces
Augmented reality requires precise and instant overlay of digital information onto everyday objects. We present our work on LightAnchors, a new method for di...
How Professors Help Rip Off Students
Textbooks are too expensive.
Rogue P. Bigham
for most courses, in computer science especially, there are ample high-quality resources … don't make students pay
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Jim Thatcher, Accessibility Giant, Dies at 83
In 2008 I heard that Jim Thatcher was coming to Berkeley as part of his role as the expert in the Target web accessibility case. I had been working in the digital accessibility legal space for ten years. Of course I had heard of Jim, but we had...
Ring’s Hidden Data Let Us Map Amazon's Sprawling Home Surveillance Network
As reporters raced this summer to bring new details of Ring’s law enforcement contracts to light, the home security company, acquired last year by Amazon for a whopping $1 billion, strove to underscore the privacy it had pledged to provide users.
Bloomberg Says 2020 Rivals Criticizing His Fortune Could Have Made Their Own
In his first TV interview since he entered the presidential race, Mr. Bloomberg said other Democrats “had a chance to go out and make a lot of money” themselves, and then use it to fund their campaigns.
Rogue P. Bigham
“They had a chance to go out and make a lot of money"
…Bloomberg doing his best to connect w/ the people from his gold-plated malarkey toilet
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Apple buys first-ever carbon-free aluminum from Alcoa-Rio Tinto venture
Apple Inc on Thursday said it has bought the first-ever commercial batch of carb...
Rogue P. Bigham
pittsburgh…
"The aluminum will be shipped this month from an Alcoa research facility in Pittsburgh and used in Apple products, although the technology company did not say which ones."
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Apple at NeurIPS 2019 - Apple
Apple Machine Learning Journal publishes posts written by Apple engineers about their work using machine learning technologies to help build innovative products for millions of people around the world.
Prospective Students | Department of Computer Science
Landing page for Prospective Graduate Students, Department of Computer Science at The University of Iowa
Facebook Gives Workers a Chatbot to Appease That Prying Uncle
The “Liam Bot” teaches employees what to say if friends or family ask difficult questions about the company over the holidays.
What Words Are Worth: National Science Foundation Grant Abstracts Indicate Award Funding - David M. Markowitz, 2019
Can word patterns from grant abstracts predict National Science Foundation (NSF) funding? In an analysis of over 7.4 million words covering 19,569 proposals, th...
An Epidemic of AI Misinformation
Maybe every paper abstract should have a mandatory field of what the limitations of the proposed approach are. That way some of the science miscommunications and hypes could maybe be avoided.— Sebastian Risi (@risi1979) October 28, 2019 The media...
Is Disability a Spectrum? -
When strangers first discover that I am blind, one of the first questions they often ask is “How much can you see?” or “So can you see anything at all?” On the other hand, some people assume that if you self-identify as blind, you must be “totally...
Research at Rochester: Senior Shagun Bose combines STEM and art
“A person who does sculpture is as much of an engineer as someone who works with robots,” Bose said. “They’re just using different mediums.”
The scientists who are creating a bio-internet of things
The internet of things connects devices across the globe. Now researchers are considering how bacteria can join the network.
New Technology Makes Internet Memes Accessible for People With Visual Impairments
People with visual impairments use social media like everyone else, often with the help of screen reader software. But that technology falls short when it encounters memes, which don't include alternate text, or alt text, to describe what's depicted...