Hitting the Books: The Soviets once tasked an AI with our mutually assured destruction
The Perimeter system would have unleashed a civilization-ending counterstrike following a US nuclear launch.
MIT Press
Hitting the Books: How Mildred Dresselhaus' research proved we had graphite all wrong
The STEM pioneer's experiments at MIT revolutionized our understanding of charge carriers.
Hitting the Books: What autonomous vehicles mean for tomorrow's workforce
Sure, Robots are taking our jobs, but at least they're coming for them slowly.
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Hitting the Books: Why that one uncle of yours continually refuses to believe in climate change
or, 'How conspiracy theories can lead to science denialism.'
Hitting the Books: How biased AI can hurt users or boost a business's bottom line
“Why would you build an expensive algorithm if you can’t bias it in your favor?” - former American Airlines president, Robert Crandall
Hitting the Books: The bias behind AI assistants' failure to understand accents
Can a new technology really be revolutionary if it isn't universally accessible?
Hitting the Books: How Bell Labs jump-started the multimedia art movement
It was a Cold War collaboration between the worlds of art and engineering.
Hitting the Books: America needs a new public data system
We've got to crunch the numbers to form a more perfect union.
Hitting the Books: Do we really want our robots to have consciousness?
A little bit of self-awareness goes a long way.
Hitting the Books: How to be active on social media and still keep your job
Sometimes a measure of self-censorship is a good thing.
Hitting the Books: Without glass, we'd have never discovered the electron
Behold the birth of the cathode ray tube!
Hitting the Books: How 'universal' stem cells might fix our brains
All it takes is a bit of genetic manipulation.
Hitting the Books: How an attempt at digital allyship fell flat
Why #CrimingWhileWhite didn't work.
Hitting the Books: Teaching AI to sing slime mold serenades
Get ready for Mozart on a microchip.
Hitting the Books: Stop pranking your kids to impress Jimmy Kimmel
You're supposed to be the adult here, remember?
