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Embodied and dialogical basis for understanding humans with information: a sustainable view: JASIST
Anna Suorsa’s paper explores human-information interactions (HIIs) through hermeneutic phenomenology, emphasizing embodiment, dialogicality, and temporality. Drawing from Alfred Schutz’s... more
Computers & Society (K.4) | Feb 10 25
AI should challenge, not obey: Communications of the ACM
As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to revolutionize how we learn and work, Sarkar questions whether the way we are leveraging AI as an assistant that efficiently completes tasks is the right one. In this article, Sarkar argues for AI’s... more
Ethics (K.4.1...) | Feb 5 25
Mapping the ethics of generative AI: a comprehensive scoping review: Minds and Machines
The advent of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) has seen much debate in academic and professional circles of late, as well as significant hype in public media and heated discussion on social media. Much of this attention has been negative and focused on its... more
Ethics (K.4.1...) | Feb 4 25
Weighted synchronous automata: Mathematical Structures in Computer Science
The theory of finite automata (FA) is extensively studied, while Zadeh’s sets and fuzzy logic address real-world scenarios. This paper formalizes fuzzy automata’s behavior in dealing with uncertainty and vagueness inherent to... more
Mathematics of Computing (G) | Feb 3 25
New computer evaluation metrics for a changing world: Communications of the ACM
The sheer number of artificial intelligence (AI) applications and increasing demand for cloud computing technologies require effective plans for coping with requests related to computing resources. But how should managers of humongous data centers... more
Hardware (K.2...) | Jan 15 25
Towards combining commonsense reasoning and knowledge acquisition to guide deep learning: Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems
In artificial intelligence (AI), commonsense reasoning refers to the ability to make assumptions about the characteristics and nature of everyday situations, similar to how humans perceive and interpret them. For... more
Learning (I.2.6) | Jan 13 25
Explainability is not a game: Communications of the ACM
The increasing application of artificial intelligence (AI) in real-life decisions--from birth to death, from economic survival to irrecoverable debts by nations, from peace to war times and military manpower mobilization [1]--requires highly reliable machine learning (ML) algorithms. But how should creators of future... more
General (I.2.0) | Dec 27 24
Meta-learning approaches for few-shot learning: a survey of recent advances: ACM Computing Surveys
Gharoun et al. provide a comprehensive overview of meta-learning techniques, with a focus on how these methods facilitate learning from limited data (few-shot learning, FSL). They... more
General (I.2.0) | Dec 20 24
The science of detecting LLM-generated text: Communications of the ACM
While artificial intelligence (AI) applications for natural language processing (NLP) are no longer something new or unexpected, nobody can deny the revolution and hype that started, in late 2022, with the announcement of the first public version of ChatGPT. By then... more
Natural Language (H.5.2...) | Dec 16 24
Adopting and sustaining microservice-based software development: Communications of the ACM
When a new software development paradigm appears, eager potential adopters often rush into it, not knowing what they do not know. Microservice-based software development is one of the latest hot ideas in the... more
Software Development (K.6.3...) | Dec 13 24
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Calculus for the natural sciences
Helfgott’s textbook aims to provide first-year students in mathematics, engineering, and natural sciences with the fundamentals of calculus and its application in other sciences, including biology, chemistry, and physics. He includes many examples, and step-by-step iterations... more
Math (I.7.2...) | Feb 12 25
Means of control: how the hidden alliance of tech and government Is creating a new American surveillance state
This is a clear and powerful book about how technology and government work together. It explains how this partnership watches and controls people in new ways, and asks big questions about privacy and... more
Government (J.1...) | Feb 11 25
Raising robots to be good: a practical foray into the art and science of machine ethics
To quote T. S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land” [1]: “HURRY UP PLEASE ITS TIME.”
Raising robots to be good: a practical foray into the art and science of machine ethics is a timely and critical rethink of life and work in the age of AI [2,3].
The book consists of nine chapters... more
Ethics (K.4.1...) | Feb 7 25
Parallel programming with C# and .NET: fundamentals of concurrency and asynchrony behind fast-paced application
Parallel computing and programming are two of the most fundamental yet most difficult challenges in software design and execution. Sarcar’s book on parallel programming does a great job of presenting the... more
Parallel Programming (D.1.3...) | Jan 29 25
Artificial intelligence and human evolution: contextualizing AI in human history
Artificial intelligence and human evolution is a profound and enlightening exploration of the interplay between artificial intelligence (AI) and human evolution. It offers a comprehensive overview that spans the origins... more
History of Computing (K.2) | Jan 27 25
Formal verification of structurally complex multipliers
Any reader familiar with computer organization knows the importance of the motherboard, the digital circuit for arithmetic logic units (ALUs), and the multiplier circuit for multiplying numbers. The subject of this book is verifying multiplier circuits. Specifically, it... more
Math (I.7.2...) | Jan 24 25
Longevity hubs: regional innovation for global aging
This is a book about innovating innovation. It posits a growing human need and purpose: “building a better world for aging adults and their loved ones.”
Longevity hubs is divided into three parts. The preface and introduction explain the emergence and... more
General (K.4.0) | Jan 23 25
Critical systems thinking and the management of complexity
This is the first of two books by Dr. Jackson about critical systems thinking (CST). I discussed the other, Critical systems thinking: a practitioner’s guide, in a previous review [1]. That book was essentially a Reader’s Digest version of this one, written for... more
General (K.6.0) | Jan 21 25
Quantum machine learning: quantum algorithms and neural networks
Writing a book about a rapidly evolving technology like quantum computing (QC) is no easy task, especially in light of its potential impact on other rapidly developing fields such as deep machine learning, reinforcement learning (RL), natural language processing (NLP)... more
General (B.0) | Jan 20 25
High-performance web apps with FastAPI
For the software developer seeking to quickly build application programming interfaces (APIs) in Python using a modern approach, this is an excellent resource. The book quickly moves from introductory concepts, assuming some basic knowledge of Python, to the... more
Web (I.7.1...) | Jan 17 25
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