How a university research associate happened upon the only known copy of this 'revolutionary' software

The Salt Lake Tribune reports a University of Utah associate discovered a rare 1973 UNIX V4 software tape, believed to be the ...

AGI? GPUs? Learn the definitions of the most common AI terms to enter our vocabulary

The rise of AI has given us an entirely new vocabulary. Here's a list of the top AI terms you need to learn, in alphabetical order.
Communications of the ACM

The Impersistence of Memory

“Imagine a computation that produces a new bit of information in every step, based on the bits that it has computed so far. Over t steps of time, it may generate up to t new bits of information in ...

A millennial quit a 6-figure job at Google to pursue more meaningful work: 'I wanted more out of my career and my life.'

Job quitters have become outliers in a frozen hiring market. Those who do it say the uncertainty was worth it to take some ...
New York Magazine

How Claude Reset the AI Race

The AI-assisted future of programming, where people can make their own custom software without learning to code, is rapidly coming into view.
The Post-Journal

Prevention Works Expanding WISE Program

Senior citizens who took part in the Wellness Initiative for Senior Education program. Submitted photo Prevention Works Inc. is expanding the Wellness Initiative for Senior Education (WISE) Program, a ...
The New York Times

College Students Flock to a New Major: A.I.

At M.I.T., a new program called “artificial intelligence and decision-making” is now the second-most-popular undergraduate major. By Natasha Singer Natasha Singer covers computer science and A.I.
VentureBeat

Lean4: How the theorem prover works and why it's the new competitive edge in AI

Large language models (LLMs) have astounded the world with their capabilities, yet they remain plagued by unpredictability and hallucinations – confidently outputting incorrect information. In ...
HUB

Researchers watched students' brains as they learned to program

Computer programming powers modern society and enabled the artificial intelligence revolution, but little is known about how our brains learn this essential skill. To help answer that question, Johns ...
ZDNet

This new Google Gemini model scrolls the internet just like you do - how it works

Google's new AI model can interact directly with website UIs. It joins similar tools from OpenAI and Anthropic. The company also admitted its weaknesses, including hallucinations. Google DeepMind has ...
Skift

An Airbnb Loyalty Program Is In the Works and It Won’t Be Like Marriott Bonvoy

Photo Credit: IPhone apps for OYO, Airbnb Trivago, Booking.com, Expedia, Agoda, Hotels.com and Hostelworld. Adobe Stock / Koshiro K On the competitive disadvantage front, Dan Wasiolek, senior equity ...
Brown University

New research center will work toward better, more reliable computer simulations

The center will unite mathematicians, engineers and computer scientists at Brown, NYU and Georgia Tech to tackle longstanding problems in how simulations handle extreme physical events. PROVIDENCE, ...