September 2018

Technology: How Can it Become Safer as it Becomes More Advance?

Kailana, Ian, Miya, Jack Over the decades humans have begun to gather data digitally rather than on paper.  Information is now being recorded using computers and the development of AI has been a priority in computer engineering.  The processing of big data provides some benefits, but the development of AI threatens our society. AI is… Read more Technology: How Can it Become Safer as it Becomes More Advance?

Looking Down the Barrel of Technological Challenges

Connor Burri, Patrick O’Mullan, Matthew Spofford, Alex Young   While we develop new and innovative technologies, society is continuing to evolve faster than ever before.  Technologies such as AI, Machine Learning, and Big Data, are going to affect our future in extreme ways. By looking to historical examples of time periods when technology was rapidly… Read more Looking Down the Barrel of Technological Challenges

Staying One Step Ahead: How Future Technologies Should Cooperate With Society

In modern times, computing technologies have been developing rapidly. Big Data, machine engineering, and AI are playing a larger part in our daily lives than ever before, creating an epistemic transition. As these systems advance, the developers of these technologies will be tasked with finding progressive ways of meshing technology with society, ever cognizant of… Read more Staying One Step Ahead: How Future Technologies Should Cooperate With Society

What History Can Tell Us About the Future of AI and Technology

By examining the history of technology we can recognize problems we need to address in order to make the future that we envision for this technology a reality. Looking at the success and concerns of the past, we can shape the future of AI and big data positively, and be better informed on decisions that… Read more What History Can Tell Us About the Future of AI and Technology

Is Technology an Endangerment to Society? SAFTB

It is easy to be a proponent of new computing research and technologies because anything that is new and shiny is exciting to most people. However, many people, to the delight of tech corporations, choose to ignore the dangers of this rapid technology growth. New computing technologies have the potential to jeopardize as much as… Read more Is Technology an Endangerment to Society? SAFTB

Envisioning the Future Based on the History of Computing

By Emma Bailey, Joshua O’Grady, Andrew Panneton, and Matt Stevens (AKA EGMOSAM) *All authors contributed equally to this work Technology is at the heart of modern society, especially in the form of AI, machine learning, and big data. This is an ever-growing field and becomes even more important to humans’ lives with every new technology… Read more Envisioning the Future Based on the History of Computing

AEEC Article Nomination

The article that we are nominating is Bill Gates on dangers of artificial intelligence: ‘I don’t understand why some people are not concerned’, by Peter Holley.  This article talks about Bill Gates’ position on artificial intelligence as he ponders the idea of why humanity is not concerned with this advancement. Many topics of negative implications of AI… Read more AEEC Article Nomination

SAFTB Article Nomination

Machine Learning Advances Human-Computer Interaction by Lindsey Valich is about the differences in computer learning and human learning. Including the fact that, computers require more data points to recognize patterns. It also mentions computerized speech assistants which can detect facial expressions and speech patterns to help improve public speaking. This program can not understand the… Read more SAFTB Article Nomination

ACHSRE Article Nomination: Self-Driving Cars Will Need People, Too

This article discusses some of the issues with fully autonomous vehicles and stresses the importance of the interaction between the driver and the car. It resembles the idea of referring to technology and humans as “we” as discussed in class. Link to the article: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/self-driving-cars-will-need-people-too/