London, and particularly the Science Museum, has a long, solid history of mounting exhibitions on information technology topics, from its 1991 reconstruction of Babbage's Difference Engine to the industrial robots it featured in the late 1990s (which health and safety insisted should be behind glass), their humanoid fellows in 2017, and the 2014 exploration of the information age. This summer, the city has three such exhibitions running simultaneously, two of them at the Science Museum. You could summarize them as: 1) What have you done for us lately?; 2) What are you going to do for us?; and 3) Why is it taking so long? The first is GCHQ's romp through the history of keeping secrets, Top Secret: From ciphers to cyber security. This moves from the earliest times through Mary Queen of Scots' coded letters to World War II (GCHQ's formation, Bletchley Park and Alan Turing) and the Cold War.

It is a great pleasure to write this tribute in honor of Scott A. Smolka on his 65th birthday. We revisit Goldin, Smolka hypothesis that persistent Turing machine (PTM) can capture the intuitive notion of sequential interaction computation . We propose a topological setting to model the abstract concept of environment. We use it to define a notion of a topological Turing machine (TTM) as a universal model for interactive computation and possible model for concurrent computation.

Learn all about how they are humanizing technology, making our roads safer, and much more! My guest today is Rana el Kaliouby, and she is the CEO of Affectiva and a former professor of computer science. Why don't you tell us a little bit about your background, and what you did before starting Affectiva and what the genesis of the idea? I did my PhD at Cambridge University, focusing on machine learning, and computer vision. Early on in my career, I recognized that technology's becoming really pervasive. It has a lot of IQ, a lot of cognitive intelligence, but it has literally no emotional intelligence at all. As I'm sure you know from both your personal and your professional life, EQ matters. Our emotional intelligence predicts how persuasive we are, how likable we are, our ability to motivate other individuals. I believe that that's true for technology that's interacting with us on a day to day basis.

Ada Lovelace was an English mathematician who lived in the first half of the 19th century. In 1842, Lovelace was tasked with translating an article from French into English for Charles Babbage, the "Grandfather of the Computer." Babbage's piece was about his Analytical Engine, a revolutionary new automatic calculating machine. Although originally retained solely to translate the article, Lovelace also scribbled extensive ideas about the machine into the margins, adding her unique insight, seeing that the Analytical Engine could be used to decode symbols and to make music, art, and graphics. Her notes, which included a method for calculating the Bernoulli numbers sequence and for what would become known as the "Lovelace objection," were the first computer programs on record, even though the machine could not actually be built at the time.1 Though never formally trained as a mathematician, Lovelace was able to see beyond the limitations of Babbage's invention and imagine the power and potential of programmable computers; also, she was a woman, and women in the first half of the 19th century were typically not seen as suited for this type of career. Lovelace had to sign her work with just her initials because women weren't thought of as proper authors at the time.2 Still, she persevered,3 and her work, which would eventually be considered the world's first computer algorithm, later earned her the title of the first computer programmer.

House calls have always been the gold standard for healthcare delivery in its most idealized form. Unfortunately, they are also the most expensive. Indeed, today most home healthcare visits are done by an emergency medical technician (EMT) under the direst of circumstances. But there is a better way to deliver personalized, high-quality healthcare at scale, and companies like Sherpaa are making it happen. In this week's Fast Forward, PCMag Editor-in-Chief Dan Costa spoke with Sherpaa CEO and founder Dr. Jay Parkinsonn about Sherpaa's unique business model. One thing that isn't completely clear in the interview is that Sherpaa doctors all work in the same room, a kind of medical call center, and often kick diagnoses off one another to improve results. According to Parkinson, this kind of setup is better for patients and doctors and leads to materially better outcomes. We spoke in PC Magazine Labs in New York City.

"The title'Chief Data Officer' started out as a joke!", says Usama Fayyad -the world's first CDO- and continues; "Now it became a serious thing, I guess." IADSS Co-founder Dr. Usama Fayyad was interviewed by Kate Strachnyi after his keynote speech at the ODSC 2019 East event. An important part of this funny interview was about the evolution of the role "Chief Data Officer" and the future of it in driving data literacy and culture in companies. Kate Strachnyi: You were the first Chief Data Officer at Yahoo, and more recently, you were the Global Chief Data Officer at Barclays. Can you tell us about how these CDO role has come about and how it has evolved?

PhD candidate Michelle A. Lee from the Stanford AI Lab won the best paper award at ICRA 2019 with her work "Making Sense of Vision and Touch: Self-Supervised Learning of Multimodal Representations for Contact-Rich Tasks". You can read the paper on arxiv here. Audrow Nash was there to capture her pitch.

As the waitress approached the table, Sam Altman held up his phone. That made it easier to see the dollar amount typed into an investment contract he had spent the last 30 days negotiating with Microsoft. The investment from Microsoft, signed early this month and announced Monday, signals a new direction for Altman's research lab. In March, Altman stepped down from his daily duties as the head of Y Combinator, the startup "accelerator" that catapulted him into the Silicon Valley elite. Now, at 34, he is the chief executive of OpenAI, the artificial intelligence lab he helped create in 2015 with Elon Musk, the billionaire chief executive of the electric carmaker Tesla. Musk left the lab last year to concentrate on his own AI ambitions at Tesla.

Patrick Winston, a beloved professor and computer scientist at MIT, died on July 19 at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. A professor at MIT for almost 50 years, Winston was director of MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory from 1972 to 1997 before it merged with the Laboratory for Computer Science to become MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). A devoted teacher and cherished colleague, Winston led CSAIL's Genesis Group, which focused on developing AI systems that have human-like intelligence, including the ability to tell, perceive, and comprehend stories. He believed that such work could help illuminate aspects of human intelligence that scientists don't yet understand. "My principal interest is in figuring out what's going on inside our heads, and I'm convinced that one of the defining features of human intelligence is that we can understand stories,'" said Winston, the Ford Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science, in a 2011 interview for CSAIL.

An organization that won the Nobel Prize in 2017 for its work to eliminate nuclear weapons is sounding the alarm about the possibility of artificial intelligence leading to unintended wars. Beatrice Fihn, executive director of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons, is worried that hackers could breach A.I. technologies that are used in nuclear programs or that they could use A.I. to dupe countries into launching attacks. For example, deepfakes, or realistic-looking computer-altered videos, may be used to "create a perceived threat that might not be there," she warns, prompting governments to overreact. Fihn told Fortune that she wants to convene a meeting in the fall with nuclear weapons experts and some of the leading companies in A.I. and cybersecurity. Participants in the off-the-record event, she said, would produce a document that her group would use to inform governments and others about the danger.