Bill Joy's deep pessimism is now famous. "Why The Future Doesn't Need Us," his defense of that pessimism, has been read by, it seems, everyone -- and many of t...
— One feature that classification algorithms typically lack is the ability to know what they do not know. With this knowledge an algorithm would be able to operate in any domain...
Although optimization technology has been successful over the past 40 years, recent trends are emerging that demand we reconsider the paradigm that we are using for code optimizati...
Knowing what social activity is occurring within and through a Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) system is often very useful. This is especially true for computer-mediate...
Since knowledge bases (KBs) are usually incomplete, they should be able to provide information regarding their own incompleteness, which requires them to introspect on what they k...