Richard Forno, Principal Lecturer in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County Volt Typhoon is a Chinese state-sponsored hacker group. The United States government and its primary global intelligence partners, known as the Five Eyes, issued a warning on March 19, 2024, about…
Anjana Susarla, Professor of Information Systems, Michigan State University Generative artificial intelligence has been hailed for its potential to transform creativity, and especially by lowering the barriers to content creation. While the creative potential of generative AI tools has often been highlighted, the popularity…
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Pengju Li, Ph.D. Candidate in Molecular Engineering, University of Chicago Pritzker School…
Naoko Wake, Professor of History, Michigan State University With 13 Oscar nominations,…
Amanda Cote, University of Oregon In day-to-day life, you probably haven’t had someone yell at you, “Get back in the kitchen and make me a sandwich!” If you’re a woman who plays…
Jeremy Straub, North Dakota State University The Trump administration’s recently announced bans on Chinese-owned social media platforms TikTok and WeChat could have unintended consequences. The orders bar the apps from doing business…
Prasenjit Mitra, Penn State Seven years ago, my student and I at Penn State built a bot to write a Wikipedia article on Bengali Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s play “Chitra.” First it…
R. Stanley Williams, Texas A&M University The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work. The big idea For the first time, my colleagues and I have built a single…
H. Colleen Sinclair, Mississippi State University The holiday season is already a booming time for online shopping. The COVID-19 pandemic only increases the likelihood that when people shop this holiday season, they…
Kate Saenko, Boston University This month, Google forced out a prominent AI ethics researcher after she voiced frustration with the company for making her withdraw a research paper. The paper pointed out…
Sarah Esther Lageson, Rutgers University – Newark and Elizabeth Chiarello, Saint Louis University Corporations increasingly receive the same rights as people. Now, it seems, they have privileges even people don’t. Case in…
“We’re standing up to Apple for small businesses everywhere,” reads the headline on an ad found on the New York Times, the Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal newspapers today. The…
Seth M. Weinberg, University of Pittsburgh and John R. Shaffer, University of Pittsburgh Takeaways A new study reveals more than 130 regions in human DNA play a role in sculpting facial features.…
Tam Nguyen, University of Dayton Editor’s note: One of the central technologies of artificial intelligence is neural networks. In this interview, Tam Nguyen, a professor of computer science at the University of…
