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Watching the computer system known as Watson defeat the top two human Jeopardy! players of all time was fun in the short term. This demonstration of IBM’s software, however, was a bad idea in the longer term. It presented a misleading picture to the public of what is known about machine and human intelligence, and…
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Watching the computer system known as Watson defeat the top two human Jeopardy! players of all time was fun in the short term. This demonstration of IBM’s software, however, was a bad idea in the longer term. It presented a misleading picture to the public of what is known about machine and human intelligence, and…
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After having taught introductory programming (CS 1) for the past six years, and having watched many students struggle through this course and the subsequent course (CS 2), I have come to the conclusion that it is absurd to expect students who don’t have any prior programming experience to be well prepared to study Computer Science…
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The transistors will appear in Intel’s new “Ivy Bridge” microprocessor, which will be made using a 22nm manufacturing process and begin shipping later this year. Intel’s processor is the first make the jump from 32nm to 22nm, continuing the decades-long race to keep boosting the number of transistors that can be packed into the same…