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What is Artificial Intelligence?
Mike Loukides and Ben Lorica examine factors that have made AI a hot topic in recent years, today's successful AI systems, and where AI may be headed.
Four short links: 29 June 2016
Healthy Skepticism, VR Storytelling, Isolating Portraits, and Knowledge-Free Bots
Four short links: 28 June 2016
Data-Driven Dialogue, Crypto Storage, Organizing Data Sets, Life as a Robot
Four short links: 27 June 2016
Tracking Sports, Structural Mapping at Scale, Systems that Don't Suck, and Yak-Shaving-First Development
Four short links: 24 June 2016
Science Fiction Economics, Behavioural Economics, Neural Recording, and Sensitive Alexa
You got your design team in my security team!
Eleanor Saitta on security design and three steps to a safer future.
A young lady’s illustrated primer to technical decision-making
Charity Majors explores how to evaluate major technology choices and explains when you should use boring technology.
Building an open platform for government innovation
Diego Lapiduz shows how the cloud.gov team is building tools that allow government agencies to achieve faster deployments and continuous compliance in a secure environment.
The state of the W3C Web Performance Working Group
Todd Reifsteck and Philippe Le Hegaret on the W3C's new performance-related APIs and how you can help shape the future of web performance and the Web in general.
Four short links: 23 June 2016
Velocity Keynotes, Learning Machine Learning, Diver's HUD, and Kickstarter's Dividends
Highlights from Velocity in Santa Clara 2016
Watch highlights covering DevOps, performance, infrastructure, and more. From Velocity in Santa Clara 2016.
Making bad ads sad. Rad!
Bruce Lawson explores how the whole advertising ecosystem can (hopefully) improve.
Poised to deploy: The C-suite and adaptive capacity
Richard Cook explains the value of adaptive capacity and explores its far reaching consequences.
Containers will not fix your broken culture, and other hard truths
Bridget Kromhout explains why no amount of industrial-strength job scheduling makes your organization immune to Conway’s law.
So we hear you like papers
Ines Sombra and Caitie McCaffrey demonstrate how academic papers can radically change your perspective and introduce you to new ideas.
DDoS emotions
Artur Bergman explores the unique emotional challenges people face during a DDoS attack and how companies can prepare for and help alleviate them.
Four short links: 22 June 2016
AI Goals, Progressive Web Apps, VR Scale, and a Spaceship Generator