In a January paper, three computer scientists presented a faster hash table, one of the oldest data structures, disproving a 40-year-old data science conjecture
Together, Krapivin (now a graduate student at the University of Cambridge), Farach-Colton (now at New York University) …
A New York University study finds Russian troll Twitter accounts had a minimal impact on 2016 US election voters; 1% of users accounted for 70% of the exposure
Welcome to The Cybersecurity 202! I caught up on some time hanging out with friends this past weekend. Friends are cool.
A look at “neurosymbolic AI”, which combines techniques of deep neural networks and “good old-fashioned AI”, with comments from its proponents and critics
The unlikely marriage of two major artificial intelligence approaches has given rise to a new hybrid called neurosymbolic AI. Tweets: @knowablemag , @knowablemag , @knowablemag , @paldhous , @knowable...
Two Google employees who helped organize walkouts say they've faced demotions or dramatically changed roles, plan a town hall to share stories of retaliation
both at research institutions like @AINowInstitute, and at places like Google, which need calls for change and self-reflection from strong voices within. http://www.nytimes.com/... Kate Conger / @kate...
A 17-year-old tells her father what might get more girls like her into learning to program
A Teenager Gets Grilled By Her Dad About Why She's Not That Into Coding — Sylvie Rosen, 17, is a high school senior in New York. Her father, Jay Rosen, 58, is a journalism professor at New York Uni...
Facebook hires NYU deep learning expert to run its new AI lab
Facebook launched a new artificial intelligence lab in September, and now we know the person who will run it — New York University deep learning expert Yann LeCun. He has been an instrumental figure ...
Voyager Mobile, a 22-Year-Old's Cellphone Start-Up, Launches After Delay
An attack on his Web site pushed things out a few days, but John Mardini says Voyager Mobile is now ready to take orders for cut-rate cellphone service. — Mardini, a 22-year-old entrepreneur and New...
On Diaspora's Social Network, You Own Your Data
Sitting along Yankee Stadium's third base line during New York University's rainy graduation two years ago, Max Salzberg couldn't focus. The phone in his pocket wouldn't stop buzzing. With each noti...
Kickstarter of Doom: Hoax Site ‘Funds’ Torture Bus, Death Drones
Crowdsourcing a next-gen drone or a rolling torture center? Uh, yeah, Kickstriker is a hoax. — Inspired by the Kony 2012 fad, a group of New York University grad students has set up the wartime ver...
Roommates Who Click
MADDI GILJE, who will soon leave home in St. Louis to start at New York University, has chatted all summer with her new roommate, Amelia Dudley of Baltimore. She could be talking to her twin. — The...