Fernando Corbató, a Father of Your Computer (and Your Password), Dies at 93
By Katie Hafner, The New York Times Fernando Corbató, whose work on computer time-sharing in the 1960s helped pave the way for …
Bringing Human-Like Reasoning to Driverless Car Navigation
by Rob Matheson, MIT News With aims of bringing more human-like reasoning to autonomous vehicles, MIT researchers have created a system …
How Analytics are Making Peace Between Fishermen, Turtles
by Andrew Van Dam, The Washington Post The ocean is complicated. Our tools to manage it are blunt.We often approach the ever-changing …
San Diego’s Smart Streetlights Yield a Firehose of Data
by Tekla S. Perry, IEEE Spectrum San Diego, CA, has set up about 2,000 sensor-laden smart streetlights that can gather pictures, sounds, …
Data Analytics for Safer Air Space
Queensland University of Technology Researchers at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Australia used data analytics to create an algorithm that can …
The Race to Build Megafire Prediction Tools
by Adam Popescu, Bloomberg BusinessWeek California’s rising temperatures and worsening droughts are accelerating the need for advanced modeling technology. New technology is …
Dude, Where’s My Earthquake Warning System?
by Craig Miller, KQED Sience For years Californians have been hoping for some kind of warning system that would provide even a …
New Exascale System for Earth Simulation Introduced
from HPCwire The Energy Exascale Earth System Model (E3SM), supported by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science in the …
Exposed: The Path of Ransomware Payments
by NYU Tandon School of engineering, ECN Magazine The murky ecosystem of ransomware payments comes into focus in new research led by …
The Great AI Paradox
by Brian Bergstein, MIT Technology Review Don’t worry about supersmart AI eliminating all the jobs. That’s just a distraction from the problems …