Pentagon names ex-DOGE employee Gavin Kliger as Chief Data Officer to lead its AI efforts; Kliger previously reposted white supremacist Nick Fuentes' content
The Pentagon on Friday named as Chief Data Officer a computer scientist who aided billionaire Elon Musk's efforts to overhaul …
Q&A with Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and Google co-founder Sergey Brin on AI frontier models, scaling data centers, reasoning, DeepThink, AGI, and more
Google co-founder Brin says “anybody who's a computer scientist should not be retired right now. They should be working on AI."
Thomas E. Kurtz, an American mathematician, computer scientist, and co-inventor of the BASIC programming language with John Kemeny, died at 96 on November 12
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Arvind Mithal, a prolific computer scientist and longtime MIT professor who led the Computation Structures Group in MIT CSAIL, died on June 17 at age 77
A prolific researcher who led the Computation Structures Group in the Computer Science … Mastodon: Andrej Bauer / @andrejbauer@mathstodon.xyz : I was saddened today to learn that Arvind Mithral passed...
Computer scientist Avi Wigderson wins the 2023 Turing Award for his “foundational contributions to the theory of computation”, including his work on randomness
friend and mentor to so many (including me) https://www.acm.org/... Tarun Chitra / @tarunchitra : Some of my favorite Wigderson papers are: 1. Hardness vs. Randomness 2. Algebrization: A new barrier i...
How an Uber Eats worker created UberCheats, a web app that computed the actual distance a courier traveled, after suspecting algorithmic error and underpayment
A tech-savvy Uber Eats worker was sick of the algorithms that controlled his day. So he decided to fight back X: @mrbrownsir , @hoofnagle , @ftmag , @michaelezra , @madhumita29 , @karenojeffrey , @le...
Q&A with Andrew Ng, a Google Brain cofounder, Stanford professor, ex-Baidu executive, and investor, on AI models, training, regulation, Big Tech, and Biden's EO
The computer scientist says it's a mistake to fall for the doomsday hype on AI — and that regulators who do will only benefit vested interests X: @per_thorn , @hoofnagle , @anastasiabekt , and @drcoli...
An interview with AI researcher Timnit Gebru on her controversial sacking by Google in 2020, biases in AI and Big Tech, racism in Silicon Valley, and more
The Ethiopian-born computer scientist lost her job after pointing out the inequalities built into AI.
Frederick P. Brooks Jr., a Turing Award recipient who co-led IBM's System/360 and wrote a book cited as gospel by computer scientists, died last week at 91
Fred P. Brooks, the founder and long-time chair of the department (and a major influence on my professional outlook) passed away a few hours ago. Steve Lohr / @stevelohr : Remembering Fred Brooks. fro...
Peter Eckersley, who worked at EFF for 12 years, including as its chief computer scientist, and founded the Let's Encrypt certificate authority, has died at 43
With deep sadness, EFF mourns the loss of our friend, the technologist, activist, and cybersecurity expert Peter Eckersley.