article thumbnail

Pioneer of Google’s Data Centers Dies at 58

Cars That Think

Luiz André Barroso Data center pioneer Senior member, 59; died 16 September An engineer at Google for more than 20 years, Barroso is credited with designing the company’s warehouse-size data centers. in computer engineering in 1996 from the University of Southern California. He then moved to Los Angeles, where he earned a Ph.D.

Google 141
article thumbnail

Paying Tribute to Computer Science Pioneer Frederick Brooks, Jr.

Cars That Think

Brooks left IBM in 1964 to found the University of North Carolina ’s computer science department in Chapel Hill. Although he retired from teaching in 2013, Brooks was still active in the university’s research program in virtual environmentsand scientific visualization until 2020. Brooks received a Ph.D.

Tribute 106
article thumbnail

Ending an Ugly Chapter in Chip Design

Cars That Think

It pitted established male EDA experts against two young female Google computer scientists, and the underlying argument had already led to the firing of one Google researcher. Kahng declined to speak with IEEE Spectrum for this article, but he spoke to engineers last week at ISPD, which was held virtually.

Design 125
article thumbnail

AI Language Models Are Struggling to “Get” Math

Cars That Think

Over the past year, researchers from the University of California, Berkeley, OpenAI, and Google have made leaps and bounds in teaching language models —algorithms similar to GPT-3 and DALL-E 2 —basic math concepts. However, until very recently, language models regularly failed to solve even simple word problems.

Google 145
article thumbnail

Safer and Self-Driving Cars Now on Roads

Clean Fleet Report

note: We’re republishing this article because it’s a good reminder of how technology timelines can slip and yet things are clearly moving forward. This article was written more than 10 years ago, when the forecasts were we would have personal and public robotaxis galore. This article may contain affililate links.

Google 105
article thumbnail

2021's Top Stories About AI

Cars That Think

Many of this year's top articles grappled with the limits of deep learning (today's dominant strand of AI) and spotlighted researchers seeking new paths. Here are the 10 most popular AI articles that Spectrum published in 2021, ranked by the amount of time people spent reading them. Their article isn't a total downer, though.

article thumbnail

The Metaverse Could Help Us Better Understand Reality

Cars That Think

We're hearing that everyone will need access to the metaverse, that this virtual universe will be the place we'll all soon be working and playing. This article appears in the November 2021 print issue as "Mirror Worlds.". We can then take what we learn and immediately put it to work protecting the real environment around us.

Google 110