As Air Taxis Arrive, Software Issues Arise
Urban 'flying car' technology is almost here, but with proponents haunted by a 1977 helicopter crash, getting safety right is the top priority.
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The Drive Toward Self-Driving Food Delivery Vehicles
Are pizza delivery guys destined to be so 20th century?
Uncertainty in Current and Future Health Wearables
Expect inherent uncertainties in health-wearables data to complicate future decision making concerning user health.
Designing Emotionally Sentient Agents
Emotionally sentient systems will enable computers to perform complex tasks more effectively, making better decisions and offering more productive services.
Search-based Program Synthesis
A promising, useful tool for future programming development environments.
How to Implement Any Concurrent Data Structure
We propose a method called Node Replication (NR) to implement any concurrent data structure.
Bringing the Web Up to Speed with WebAssembly
WebAssembly is the first mainstream language designed from the start with a formal semantics. It not only demonstrates the feasibility of applying formal techniques, but also that they lead to a remarkably clean and simple design.
Promoting Common Sense, Reality, Dependable Engineering
Peter G. Neumann traces a lifetime devoted to identifying computing risks.
Technical Perspective: WebAssembly: A Quiet Revolution of the Web
"Bringing the Web Up to Speed with WebAssembly," by Rossberg et al., gives an overview of the initial design of WebAssembly, a new low-level programming language for Web-based software.
Technical Perspective: Node Replication Divides to Conquer
In "How to Implement Any Concurrent Data Structure," Calciu et al. show that a concurrent data structure can be built automatically and that its performance is actually competitive with state-of-the-art designs for a series of important workloads.
Securing Agent 111, and the Job of Software Architect
John Arquilla describes the new state of cyberspying, while Yegor Bugayenko considers the importance of a software architect to development projects.
Point: Should AI Technology Be Regulated?: Yes, and Here's How
Considering the difficult technical and sociological issues affecting the regulation of artificial intelligence research and applications.
Counterpoint: Regulators Should Allow the Greatest Space for AI Innovation
Permissionless innovation should be the governing policy for AI technologies.
Opportunities and Challenges in Search Interaction
Seeking to address a wider range of user requests toward task completion.
How documentation enables SRE teams to manage new and existing services.
A Century-Long Commitment to Assessing Artificial Intelligence and Its Impact on Society
A series of reports promises the general public a technologically accurate view of the state of AI and its societal implications.
Citizen-led initiatives via social media yield political influence, including even with a country's top political leaders.
D-Wave offers access to a cloud-based quantum application environment.
The Formal Picnic Approach to Requirements
A mathematical excursion will improve your requirements.
The Upper Layers of the Internet
The Internet Protocol layer does not know or care what it carries in its payloads except that they are made up of binary bits. Above the application layer, however, the meaning of the content becomes important.
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