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Communal Computing: Devices Need Greater Shareability

By Dick Weisinger

“Life is all about sharing.” — Mary Berry, English food writer. The idea of making computers and electronic devices that we can share has been around for some time. As early as 1997, in an IEEE Personal Communications paper, Xerox…

Security: Speakers and Microphones Causing Disruption and Hacking via Inaudible High Frequencies

By Dick Weisinger

The many high-tech devices with speakers that we interact with daily may be hidden carriers of malware that are disrupting and hacking your life in ways that you didn’t at all expect. Many of the phones and speaker devices that…

Crisis of Reproducibility: The Need for a Reproducibility Checklist

By Dick Weisinger

‘Not reproducible’, or as some Google researchers are calling it, ‘underspecification‘. AI results reported in papers might have spectacular and glowing results, but when other researchers attempt to replicate those same results when following the methodology specified in the research…

Autonomous Vehicles: Lidar and GPS Alone aren’t Robust Enough

By Dick Weisinger

Safe autonomous driving, much like humans and our five senses, will likely only be fully realized with multiple types of sensors. Lidar has been the standard for most research and development with autonomous vehicles. Lidar is a technique that uses…

Data: Organizations Struggle to Keep Pace with Growing Inflows of Data

By Dick Weisinger

Data has become a paradox for many organizations. Surveys show that businesses see great value in acquiring data. Two-thirds say that they aspire to be ‘data-driven’ companies. On one hand these companies say that they need to acquire even more…