The White House Frontiers Conference took place this week to "explore the future of innovation here and around the world." President Obama is also guest editor for the November issue of Wired where he discusses science and other advancements in both essay and interview form. Above is the president's writing on technology and more. There's also a joint interview with MIT's Joi Ito where the two discuss AI, self-driving cars and and other futuristic topics with Wired's Scott Dadich Pandora still hasn't revealed what it's doing with the pieces of Rdio it swiped up, but the company did unveil a full rebrand this week that's a lot more visually appealing. The quest to discover who was behind a Pro-Trump Twitter bot led to a podcast and app that might outlive the mogul's political career.

Scott Huffman, leader of Google Assistant engineering, is working on a high-profile example of practical AI. Artificial intelligence could be a huge economic boon, but not if its benefits help only the highest-skilled workers, whose jobs computers can't replace, President Barack Obama believes. With AI research rapidly becoming AI products from Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and other companies, the technology is no longer an academic curiosity. Obama expects great things of AI as it spreads to new industries, he said in an interview with Wired magazine published Wednesday. But his optimism was guarded.

President Obama thinks that artificial intelligence will be one of the thorny issues awaiting his successor in the White House. The implications of recent advances in AI were a major theme at a technology conference organized by the White House and held in Pittsburgh today. Speaking on stage, Obama said self-driving Ubers, which are being tested with passengers in Pittsburgh, were a good example of the coming complexities. Although welcome and useful, vehicles that drive themselves will have some downsides. "A huge percentage of the American population makes its living, and often a pretty good living, driving," Obama said.

President Obama traveled to Pittsburgh, PA today to speak on building up the United States' capacity for STEM innovation at the White House Frontiers Conference, a one-day national convening co-hosted with the University of Pittsburgh and Carnegie Mellon University. The Frontiers Conference brought together global researchers, business leaders, technologists, philanthropists and local innovators to discuss how to keep Americans on the cutting edge of innovation with next-generation science and technology that will help improve lives. More than 700 innovators across academia, industry, government and civil society will participate in the conference, according to a White House fact sheet on the event. At the event, which was livestreamed, the president explored five "frontiers" of innovation: Leading up to the Frontiers Conference, Obama released a national plan for artificial intelligence yesterday. Obama also issued a space-weather Executive Order "to coordinate efforts to prepare the nation for space-weather events," according to the fact sheet.

We propose a novel stacked generalization (stacking) method as a dynamic ensemble technique using a pool of heterogeneous classifiers for node label classification on networks. The proposed method assigns component models a set of functional coefficients, which can vary smoothly with certain topological features of a node. Compared to the traditional stacking model, the proposed method can dynamically adjust the weights of individual models as we move across the graph and provide a more versatile and significantly more accurate stacking model for label prediction on a network. We demonstrate the benefits of the proposed model using both a simulation study and real data analysis.

While plenty of movies and TV shows have made it onto various Internet "Best of" lists, not many can claim to have made a list curated by a president. Now films like "2001: A Space Odyssey" and "Star Wars: Episode IV -- A New Hope" can add that honor to their list of commendations. Somehow between his day job as POTUS and campaigning for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, President Barack Obama found time to guest-edit the November issue of Wired. Among his editing duties was listing off his essential genre films and television shows, and no real surprise here, a lot of sci-fi greatest hits made the list. But that's OK, Obama's still got plenty of nerd cred to go around.

Nowadays people are -- or arguably should be -- aware of the advances, promises and challenges of artificial intelligence, which already controls computers, mobile phones, automobiles and just about everything else that has a battery or power cord. Along with artificial intelligence (AI) comes the need to make sure benefits aren't undermined by risks with something controlled by a computer algorithm rather than humans. It's an important but complex topic, explaining why the White House released a 58-page report, "Preparing for the Future of Artificial Intelligence," in advance of today's Frontiers Conference at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pittsburgh. "Developing and studying machine intelligence can help us better understand and appreciate our human intelligence," states the report's executive summary. "AI can augment our intelligence, helping us chart a better and wiser path forward."

When Nathan Copeland got into a car accident in 2004, he suffered a spinal cord injury that left him paralyzed in both arms and both legs. Eventually, Copeland got a prosthetic--but one that is very different from most anyone else's out there. Copeland is the first person in the world to use a system created by DARPA and the National Science Foundation, which allows him to "experience" the sensation of touch via a special robotic prosthesis. He has a brain implant that lets him control and feel the system with his mind. Oh, he's also one of the few Americans who has personally met the President of the United States.

Since the inception of modern fighter planes, it has always been an unspoken assumption that at some point, machines would be flying the aircraft instead of human pilots. This assumption became even more solid once Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology started to pick up. Now, new test results via simulations have shown that AIs are superior to human pilots, particularly when using fighter planes. Engineers that graduated from the University of Cincinnati programmed an AI that was able to outmaneuver and outfly fighter pilots, Wired reports. The program is called "ALPHA," and through multiple simulations against former United States Air Force Colonel Gene Lee, the AI came out significantly ahead.

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