Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard, who pioneered quantum information theory, win the ACM A.M. Turing Award; the pair developed the BB84 cryptography protocol
Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard pioneered quantum information theory. Now they've been awarded the highest honor in computer science.
Q&A with Yann LeCun on his new Paris-based startup Advanced Machine Intelligence, leaving Meta, real-world applications for world models, robotics, and more
Yann LeCun is a Turing Award recipient and a top AI researcher, but he has long been a contrarian figure in the tech world.
Sources: Meta Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun plans to leave Meta in the coming months to found his own startup; a source says he is in early talks to raise funds
Turing Award winner seeks to depart as Mark Zuckerberg makes ‘superintelligence’ push — Melissa Heikkilä in London …
Why AI isn't replacing radiologists: models underperform in hospital settings, AI use faces legal hurdles, and the job is much more than image recognition
For years, radiology has been the go-to example in conversations about AI and professional obsolescence. … Bluesky: Eric Knutson / @alwayscorrect : I think they are using predictive AI for that, not L...
AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio launches LawZero, a nonprofit focused on safer AI; LawZero has raised nearly $30M from donors including Skype co-founder Jaan Tallinn
Turing Award winner launches LawZero not-profit for safer AI, while warning recent models display dangerous characteristics
Computer scientist Avi Wigderson wins the 2023 Turing Award for his “foundational contributions to the theory of computation”, including his work on randomness
friend and mentor to so many (including me) https://www.acm.org/... Tarun Chitra / @tarunchitra : Some of my favorite Wigderson papers are: 1. Hardness vs. Randomness 2. Algebrization: A new barrier i...
OpenAI and DeepMind executives, Geoffrey Hinton, and 350+ others sign a statement saying “mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority”
and says computer scientists need ethics training Brian Fung / CNN : AI industry and researchers sign statement warning of ‘extinction’ risk Alka Jain / Livemint : Industry leaders warn ‘AI poses risk...
AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio, who won the 2018 Turing Award alongside Geoffrey Hinton and Yann LeCun, says governments need to act quickly to “protect the public”
Computer science professor becomes latest expert to voice concerns over rapid rollout of large language models Tweets: @superwuster , @adamkovac , @aidangomezzz , and @alondra Tweets: Tim Wu / @superw...
Frederick P. Brooks Jr., a Turing Award recipient who co-led IBM's System/360 and wrote a book cited as gospel by computer scientists, died last week at 91
Fred P. Brooks, the founder and long-time chair of the department (and a major influence on my professional outlook) passed away a few hours ago. Steve Lohr / @stevelohr : Remembering Fred Brooks. fro...
Frederick P. Brooks Jr., a Turing Award recipient who co-led IBM's System/360 and wrote a book cited as gospel by computer scientists, died last week at 91
He was a lead designer of the computers that cemented IBM's dominance for decades. He later wrote a book on software engineering that became a quirky classic.