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Silicon Valley: Building on a Culture of Looking Forward

As industries have come and gone, and through booms and busts, the idea that change is good is one thing that hasn’t changed. Until now.

Oct 2, 2019 · 11 min read
Oct 2, 2019 · 11 min read

Discovering Dennis Ritchie’s Lost Dissertation

Until recently, across a half-century perhaps fewer than a dozen people had ever had the opportunity to read Dennis Ritchie’s dissertation.

Jun 19 · 12 min read

Reading Your Face: How To Humanize Technology With Emotion AI

To be truly effective tools, computers must learn how to read and adapt to human emotions. AI must include emotional intelligence.

Jun 4 · 5 min read

Keeping the Dream Alive: Kevin Scott Imagines the Future of AI

Tech can serve humanity, he says, if we take the responsibility to make it do so.

May 22 · 5 min read

The Future: Humans and AI

“The search for AI parallels our innate wish to fly, to roam over and beneath the seas, to see beyond our natural eyesight.”

Apr 22 · 7 min read

A Greater Good: Lessons For the Post-Pandemic Future

They are engineers and scientists and entrepreneurs and businesspeople who live compassion, empathy, and concern for others every day.

Apr 17 · 8 min read

Panic and Privilege

Author Pamela McCorduck relates how she’s seen science and the humanities converge in the field of artificial intelligence

Apr 9 · 10 min read

A Facebook Story: Mark Zuckerberg’s Hero’s Journey

Apr 2 · 5 min read

The Promise of the Doctor Program: Early AI At Stanford

Doctor was the program that Soviet scientist Andrei Yershov asked to see. Suddenly, AI became more for me than an interesting abstraction.

Mar 24 · 7 min read

The Bourne Collection: Online Search Is Older than You Think!

Charlie Bourne was an expert in computerized search for 40 years before Google.

Mar 18 · 10 min read

AI Is Already Here, For Good Or Bad

It will ask questions we don’t even know how to ask. It will think the things we are incapable of thinking.

Mar 10 · 7 min read

Playing by New Rules: How Sports Tech is Changing the Game

Experts from across the professional sports world offer rare insights into the technology innovations transforming their fields.

Mar 1 · 5 min read

CHM’s Top 10 Blogs of the Decade, 2009–2019

This time of year always brings pause for reflection. But the end of this year is special in that we’re not just bidding farewell to the…

Dec 31, 2019 · 7 min read

Where to Next?

It’s a Tuesday morning in 2037. You rush to meet the self-driving car arriving downstairs. As it pulls away, what world awaits?

Nov 27, 2019 · 24 min read

Making Change: 36 Years of Innovation at Intuit

How does a tech company founded in the era of floppy disks and hand-packaged software thrive as the market leader for 36 years?

Nov 20, 2019 · 5 min read

New Discoveries, Technology & Ethical Questions: A Tour Through the Changing World of Space

The future of space is exciting, but there’s work to do to ensure that the benefits are spread equitably and ethically around the world.

Jul 18, 2019 · 9 min read

Make It So! Science Fiction, Computing & Space

“It filled me with a romantic urge. Interplanetary travel! Here was a task worth dedicating one’s life to.”

Jul 18, 2019 · 9 min read

The Computing Race to Space: From Sputnik to Apollo

The nation was at war with the Soviet Union — a Cold War — and one of the new battle-fields was space.

Jul 18, 2019 · 7 min read

Companion to the Stars: The Apollo Guidance Computer

While the AGC wasn’t particularly fast even compared to the minicomputers of its day, it was more reliable than commercial computers.

Jul 18, 2019 · 3 min read

Players Take the Field: Silicon Valley Leaders Share How Coach Bill Campbell Helped Them Succeed

What is the difference between a manager, a coach, and a leader? Can one person be all three?

Jun 6, 2019 · 6 min read