Science Aug 26 Computer pioneer Arnold Spielberg, Steven Spielberg’s dad, dies at 103 By Andrew Dalton, Associated Press
Science Aug 13 Computer scientist, pixel inventor Russell Kirsch dead at 91 Russell Kirsch, a computer scientist credited with inventing the pixel and scanning the world's first digital photograph, died Aug. 11 at his home in Portland, Oregon, The Oregonian reported. By Associated Press
Science Feb 20 Computer scientist who pioneered ‘cut,’ ‘copy’ and ‘paste’ has died The Silicon Valley pioneer who created the now-ubiquitous computer concepts such as “cut,” “copy” and “paste” has died. Larry Tesler was 74. He made using computers easier for generations as a proponent of what he called “modeless editing."… By Associated Press
Science Apr 11 Katie Bouman ‘hardly knew what a black hole was.’ Her algorithm helped us see one Imaging scientist Katie Bouman chats with the PBS NewsHour about how she crafted an algorithm that constructed the first ever photo of a black hole. By Vicky Stein
Science Jan 24 How conservative ‘supersharers’ drove fake news in the 2016 election Silver lining: That means most people were not being inundated with fake news. By Vicky Stein
May 31 Smartphone tracking data reveals that the 2016 election season spoiled Thanksgiving By Nsikan Akpan Americans gave up 74 million hours of Thanksgiving in 2016 due to fears of political strife, according to a study published Thursday in Science Magazine. Continue reading
Feb 28 Inside the study showing conservatives retweeted Russian trolls 30 times more often than liberals By Rashmi Shivni Computational social scientists found that 40,000 American Twitter users retweeted Russian trolls more than 80,000 times in a single month before the 2016 election. Continue reading
Feb 10 A short history of AI schooling humans at their own games By Andrew Wagner Through chess, Jeopardy, poker and checkers, Deep Blue, Watson, Libratus and Chinook changed the way humans think about artificial intelligence. Continue reading
Oct 26 Watch 7:38 Cracking the stealth political influence of bots By Miles O'Brien Among the millions of real people tweeting about the presidential race, there are also a lot accounts operated by fake people, or “bots.” Politicians and regular users alike use these accounts to increase their follower bases and push messages. Science… Continue watching
Jun 16 This computer algorithm might be able to predict the next ISIS attack By Nsikan Akpan Want to stop an ISIS attack? Don’t start with lone wolves, according to new computer analysis of pro-ISIS groups on social media. Continue reading