Algorithms Reaching into Society, our Bodies and our Brain
Just a few years ago, who would have thought that algorithms would be regularly making important decisions once made by humans, and they would be so complex that we would not be able to fully...
View ArticleTalking to Machines
Talking to machines is becoming commonplace. We routinely tell our smart speakers what to play next, we tell our satnavs where we want to go, we ask our phones general knowledge questions, we dictate...
View ArticleWhat have Mathematics and Statistics ever done for you?
By Graham Robertson Senior Marketing Executive, Cambridge University Press How much do you know about the influence of mathematics and statistics? April is Mathematics and Statistics Awareness Month,...
View ArticleIn the footsteps of Leibniz: Learning by Computing
This book focuses on the shaping of the lifting surfaces to give an aircraft the desired performance. Skills in shaping for performance can be built by hands-on experience in real aerodynamic design...
View ArticleThe Vision for the Global Quantum Internet
An outlook for how a global quantum ecosystem enabled by the quantum internet could emerge. Credit- Peter P. Rohde The true power of classical computing was never fully realised until the emergence of...
View ArticleQ&A with Chris Jay Hoofnagle & Simson L. Garfinkel, authors of ‘Law and...
Law and Policy for the Quantum Age (out now as Open Access) is for readers interested in the political and business strategies underlying quantum sensing, computing, and communication. This work...
View ArticleThe Cutting-Edge of Edge Learning
Machine Learning (ML) has demonstrated great promises in various fields, e.g., smart health, smart surveillance, smart home, self-driving, smart grid, which are fundamentally altering the way...
View ArticleMeet the Author: Andrew A. Chien
In a 25-year career, Professor Andrew A. Chien has been a chair professor, led Intel Research, and served as Editor in Chief of Communications of the ACM, and been an active researcher in cutting edge...
View ArticleIs the internet changing how we create “knowledge”?
How do we know what is “true”? When I was growing up in the 1970s, I believed most of the information I received. That included things my teachers told me, things I heard on the nightly news (my mother...
View ArticleThe Importance of Probability in Computing
A Q&A with Professor Mor Harchol-Balter, author of the new Cambridge textbookIntroduction to Probability in Computing In today’s blog post, we’re delighted to catch up with the author of a...
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