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Hitting the Books: Why we haven't made the 'Citizen Kane' of gaming
Pippin Barr deconstructs the game design process using an octet of his own previous projects to shed light on specific aspects of how games could better be put together.
Hitting the Books: Tech can't fix what's broken in American policing
'More than a Glitch' from data journalist Dr. Meredith Broussard examines the myriad failings of modern automation and the price BIPOC people pay for them.
Hitting the Books: Why America once leaded its gasoline
Automakers have been fighting to eliminate Engine knock since the days of the Model T. Their initial attempts to fix it, as University of Manitoba's Professor Vaclav Smil explains in "Invention and Innovation," went over like a lead balloon.
Hitting the Books: How Southeast Asia's largest bank uses AI to fight financial fraud
'Working with AI' by Thomas Davenport and Steven Miller is filled with case studies looking at commonplace human-AI collaboration and providing insight into the potential implications of these interactions.
Hitting the Books: How much that insurance monitoring discount might really be costing you
Yes, AI/ML systems are better at certain tasks than humans -- but, technically, so are horses. That's no reason to fear robots, argues Gerd Gigerenzer in his new book, How to Stay Smart in a Smart World.
Hitting the Books: The Soviets once tasked an AI with our mutually assured destruction
In "The New Fire" (out now from MIT Press) we see why AIs should not be allowed to engage in nuclear brinksmanship.
Hitting the Books: How Mildred Dresselhaus' research proved we had graphite all wrong
In Carbon Queen, author Maia Weinstock illuminates the life and foundational scientific achievements of MIT's first female institute professor, National Medal of Science winner Mildred Dresselhaus.
Hitting the Books: What autonomous vehicles mean for tomorrow's workforce
In "The Work of the Future," an interdisciplinary team of MIT researchers exam the disconnect between improvements in technology and the benefits derived by workers from those advancements
Hitting the Books: Why that one uncle of yours continually refuses to believe in climate change
In How to Talk to a Science Denier, Lee McIntyre examines the phenomenon of denialism and explains how you can most effectively address your relatives' misplaced concerns over everything from mRNA vaccines to why the Earth isn't actually flat.
Hitting the Books: How biased AI can hurt users or boost a business's bottom line
In 'A Citizen's Guide to Artificial Intelligence,' John Zerilli presents readers with an approachable, holistic examination of both the history and current state of the art, the potential benefits of and challenges facing ever-improving AI technology, and how this rapidly advancing field could influence society for decades to come.
Hitting the Books: The bias behind AI assistants' failure to understand accents
The age of speaking to our computers as we do with other humans is finally upon us. But as with other long-awaited technologies such as self-driving cars and computer vision systems, voice-activated assistants like Siri and Alexa aren't nearly as revolutionary as we'd hope.
Hitting the Books: How Bell Labs jump-started the multimedia art movement
Like [Frank J.] Malina and Klüver, Pierce’s interests extended far beyond engineering. Pierce proved remarkably tolerant of Klüver’s art-and-technology efforts, seeing these as activities that could benefit engineers as well as artists.
Hitting the Books: America needs a new public data system
In the excerpt below, Lane illustrates the challenges that government employees face when given incomplete or biased data and still expected to do their duties, as well as the enormous benefits we can reap when data is effectively and ethically leveraged for the public good. Democratizing Our Data is already available on Amazon Kindle and will be for sale in print on September 1st.
Hitting the Books: Do we really want our robots to have consciousness?
Although I argue for self-awareness, I do not believe that we need to worry about consciousness. Let’s first try to build some interesting robots without consciousness and see how far we get.
Hitting the Books: How to be active on social media and still keep your job
On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog but they can still see you’re a jerk when you shitpost like that.
Hitting the Books: Without glass, we'd have never discovered the electron
Glass is one of humanity's oldest technologies, but without it we'd have never invented television.
Hitting the Books: How 'universal' stem cells might fix our brains
The technique of iPS cell reprogramming takes a differentiated cell backward in development.
Hitting the Books: How an attempt at digital allyship fell flat
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Hitting the Books: Teaching AI to sing slime mold serenades
Welcome to Hitting the Books. With less than one in five Americans reading just for fun these days, we've done the hard work for you by scouring the internet for the most interesting, thought provoking books on science and technology we can find and delivering an easily digestible nugget of their stories.
Hitting the Books: Stop pranking your kids to impress Jimmy Kimmel
Welcome to Hitting the Books. With less than one in five Americans reading just for fun these days, we've done the hard work for you by scouring the internet for the most interesting, thought provoking books on science and technology we can find and delivering an easily digestible nugget of their stories.
