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As a genre, the “award acceptance lecture” is little more than a formality and a banality. But there is at least one charming exception to this rule—the talks given by the foremost computer scientists ...

WebAssembly, or Wasm, provides a standard way to deliver compact, binary-format applications that can run in the browser. Wasm is also designed to run at or near machine-native speeds. Developers can ...

Abstract: To alleviate the annotation burden in supervised learning, various weakly-supervised learning (WSL) configurations have emerged-such as pairwise, triplet, and N-tuple based supervision-that ...

Thirty years ago, the Everglades was a much different place than it is today. At one time, people could go and see wildlife of all sizes, but today something is missing. Many mammals used to call the ...

Jeff's been involved in the IT industry since before the Internet and spent more than 20 years working in technical support, system administration, network administration, and consulting roles. He ...

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Consider the universe of wheeled motor vehicles. There are many types: motorcycles, mopeds, automobiles, sport utility vehicles, busses, vans, tractor-trailers, pickup trucks, all-terrain vehicles, ...