Voices From The Field | Why Science Drama Would Make Great TV
No matter what new sitcoms and dramas the networks dream up this coming fall, I can almost guarantee the absence of one type of show: a show about academia. But a television show about academics —...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Paradox of Hoaxes: Errors Persist, Even When Corrected
It was an accidental hoax. A screenshot from Back to the Future got passed around showing the wrong date for when the DeLorean hurtled forward in time, and turns out this wasn’t even the first time it...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Future Of... | Who Needs Players? Simulated Games Are the Future of Sports
From the array of Thanksgiving Classic football games to family-style Turkey Bowls and other sports played this holiday, the sports menu hasn’t changed much at all over the years. Yet technology could...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Stop Hyping Big Data and Start Paying Attention to ‘Long Data’
Our species can’t seem to escape big data. We have more data inputs, storage, and computing resources than ever, so Homo sapiens naturally does what it has always done when given new tools: it goes...
View Article‘Dark Intellectual Property’: Why We Need a Kickstarter for Patents
You’ve heard of the “deep web" and may also have heard of “dark social,” but what you may not know about yet is “dark IP” -- the intellectual property that remains on the shelf: undiscovered,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Let’s Bring The Polymath — and the Dabblers — Back
Some of the most exciting advancements in computing right now come from the field of deep learning, and companies such as Facebook, Google, IBM, and Microsoft are all involved because frankly, this...
View Article
