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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 messages to friends directly from our smartwatches, and much more. Slowly but surely the conversational agents that recognise and respond to […]
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Joshua A.T. Fairfield, author of Runaway Technology, on hate speech, disinformation, and technology,
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There is no question that COVID-19 has brought tremendous suffering around the globe. We have lost over one million humans to the pandemic. Some who have been infected have long-lasting and devastating symptoms. People have lost their jobs and some go hungry or don’t have a place to live. There has also been significant mental […]
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The editors of Information Theoretic Perspectives on 5G Systems and Beyond discuss their new book which provides a detailed overview of the state-of-art approaches that led to realization of 5G.
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What inspired Bioinspired Structures and Design? This book was inspired by a course entitled “Bioinspired Structures” (16,982) that was taught by Prof. Leo Daniel at MIT. This highly successful course, which was posted on MIT’s open courseware, attracted the attention of Cambridge University Press, and led eventually to a contract with Cambridge University Press to […]
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What inspired Rigid Body Kinematics? This book is the result of a whole professional life devoted to Newtonian Mechanics, both from an educational and a research point of view.
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What inspired this book? In accepting the role of instructor for the UMD (University of Maryland) course entitled “Spacecraft Thermal Design”, which the book is based upon, I quickly learned that this topic included an unanticipated challenge. In researching reference texts for the course, it quickly became apparent that there was no textbook available that […]
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It is exciting and troubling to ponder the profound changes wrought by the COVID-19 pandemic. For example: what will remain of offices when all is said and done? Will there be any? Why make the commute—why rush out the door, juggle childcare, sit in traffic, tolerate boorish coworkers—when the pandemic has shown you can do […]
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