Machine Wars: Machina Humeana

Vox Machina (review)

Deus ex Machina

Once there was a time when mainframes walked the earth and reigned supreme over all the land. Lowly users were far too unclean and unschooled to commune with these vastly superior beings made of silicon and software, and so there arose among us a programming priesthood who served as intermediaries between human and machine. Like the monks of old, who studiously labored over the production of el...

Deus EM Machina

Homes, offices and many other environments will be increasingly saturated with connected, computational appliances, forming the “Internet of Things” (IoT). At present, most of these devices rely on mechanical inputs, webpages, or smartphone apps for control. However, as IoT devices proliferate, these existing interaction methods will become increasingly cumbersome. Will future smart-home owners...

Ex Machina: Personal Attacks Seen at Scale

The damage personal attacks cause to online discourse motivates many platforms to try to curb the phenomenon. However, understanding the prevalence and impact of personal attacks in online platforms at scale remains surprisingly difficult. The contribution of this paper is to develop and illustrate a method that combines crowdsourcing and machine learning to analyze personal attacks at scale. W...

Massively-Parallel Computing on Cog ex Machina

Cog ex Machina is a software framework for building massively-parallel applications on commodity, multicore hardware. Complex models may be expressed in a simple, abstract programming model, while hiding the complexities (threads, locks, synchronization, communication) of the underlying hardware platform. External Posting Date: August 7, 2012 [Fulltext] Approved for External Publication Interna...