A computer scientist is a scientist who has acquired knowledge of computer science, the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and their application. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computer systems, as opposed to the hardware side that computer engineers mainly focus on (although there is overlap).
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Containment algorithms won't stop super-intelligent AI, scientists warn
Computer scientists used theoretical calculations to show it would be impossible to build an algorithm that could control ...
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China claims it built a quantum computer that's 10 billion times faster than Google's
State researchers in China recently developed a quantum computing system purported to be 10 billion times faster than Google's ...
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The first-ever image of a black hole is now a movie — literally
Last year, researchers captured the first-ever image of a black hole. Well, that historic image has now been turned into ...
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Horrific AI surveillance experiment uses convicted felons as human guinea pigs
When a convicted felon in the US completes their court-mandated sentence(s) they're considered a free citizen with limited ...
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Here's what’s stopping AI from reaching human-like understanding
The short excerpt below from the 1938 film La Femme du Boulanger (The Baker’s Wife) ingeniously depicts how the human ...
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Study: Artificial brains need rest too
Researchers from Los Alamos National Laboratory found that the artificial brains benefitted from a digital analog of sleep ...
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Legendary Bitcoin contributor Hal Finney’s Twitter profile is safe — for now
Bitcoin fans can rest easy as Twitter has backpedalled on its plans to purge inactive accounts until it can figure out how ...
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This bot read 3.5M books to find out how language perpetuates gender stereotypes
Computer scientists used machine learning to analyze 3.5 million books to find out whether the language used to describe ...
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RIP Fernando “Corby” Corbató, inventor of the password (1926-2019)
Fernando "Corby" Corbató played an outsized role in the development of operating systems and cybersecurity, and laid the ...
