Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) introduced today a reference design and algorithm that enables small-form-factor, low-power smoke detector designs to be rapidly prototyped and brought to market faster at a ...

For better accountability, we should shift the focus from the design of these systems to their impact. Describing a decision-making system as an “algorithm” is often a way to deflect accountability ...

Artificial intelligence can design an autonomous robot in 30 seconds flat on a laptop or smartphone. It’s not quite time to panic about just anybody being able to create the Terminator while waiting ...

Three new books warn against turning into the person the algorithm thinks you are. Like a lot of Netflix subscribers, I find that my personal feed tends to be hit or miss. Usually more miss. The ...

The model of democracy in the 1920s is sometimes called “the melting pot” —the dissolution of different cultures into an American soup. An update for the 2020s might be “open source,” where cultural ...

Audrey G. Bennett receives funding from the NEH and NSF. Ron Eglash receives funding from the NSF. The model of democracy in the 1920s is sometimes called “the melting pot” – the dissolution of ...