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AI SECURITY: The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence and Adversarial Machine Learning
The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence (NSCAI) was established by Congress in 2018 to...
Promise & Peril of Intelligent Machines & Cyberspace: How Rural Universities Are Teaming Together
It is impossible to predict the future with any certainty, but evidence is growing that...
FOUR HORSEMEN OF TECHNOLOGICAL CHANGE: Farmers, Elevator Operators, Coal Miners, Bank Tellers
Technology has changed the dynamic between labor and capital in the broader economy since the...
Solving Crime Through Digital Evidence
ON JANUARY 15, 1974, four members of the Otero family were murdered in their home...
Combining Precision Ag Technologies to Improve Crop Management: Improving Site Specific Weed Control in Corn
Various emerging technologies in precision agriculture improve crop management, yields and agricultural sustainability. Together, several...
Real Robots in Our Near Future: The Rise of Capable Industrial Automatons
We know two things about the future. And both point to the need for many...
Food Security for the Future: Empowering Farmers and Ranchers Through Precision Ag Technologies
Americans enjoy the lowest cost, highest quality food supply in the world. On average, the...
In Defense of (Virtuous) Autonomous Systems
The war in Ukraine is a reminder that the world's major military powers are developing...
Whangdepootenawah!? Technological Disruption & Demographic Collapse ~Part One~
In Ireland in the 1840s, a potato blight precipitated famine during which millions of Irish...
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Digitization & Energy Dependency
The Need for Affordable, Accessible Energy
As residents of a top energy producing state, now adapting to the massive digital transformation of our socio-economy, it...
Would Regulation Prevent AI From Becoming an Evil Overlord?
Some people are, perhaps, afraid that heavily armed artificially intelligent robotshttps://theconversation.com/losing-control-the-dangers-of-killer -robots-58262. might take over the world and enslave us—or they might even exterminate humanity.https://theconversation.com/what-an-artificial-intelligence-researcher-fears-about-ai-78655. Due...
GameStop or Stopping the Game?
Retail Davids vs. Wall Street Goliaths
“O wonder! How many ingenuous investors are there! How courageous mankind is! O brave new markets That has such...
Witte & (Digital) Wisdom
The Benefits & Challenges of Online Education
Unlike many teachers, Shannay Witte was well prepared to deal with online instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic. Many...
Complex Maya Computations
Math, Time, Astronomy & Hieroglyphs
Ancient peoples and places might seem far removed from the world of computers, the internet and other modern, but we...
Facebook vs Free Markets & Innovation
Examining a Regulatory Capture Power Move
Facebook wants new internet regulations. And they haven’t been shy about saying so. The company has put out at...
Precision Agriculture
The Future in Farming and Ranching
As the state’s land-grant university, NDSU has a unique role to play in precision agriculture.
Recently, Dakota Digital Review (DDR)...
Are Self-Driving Cars Safe?
Challenges in Technology, Trust, AI & Cybersecurity
On April 17, 2021, a Tesla Model S automobile, equipped with autopilot control, missed a turn and crashed...
[OPINION] Atoms of the World Unite—Or Split
If transitioning to “green” energy (primarily wind and solar) yields only a 6 percent reduction in global CO2 emissions—as shown in Mark Mill’s article,...
New Books From Our Contributors
New Books: The Cloud Revolution
The conventional wisdom on how technology will change the future is wrong. Mark Mills lays out a radically different and optimistic vision for what’s really coming.
New Books: Future Peace
Robert Latiff urges extreme caution in the adoption of new weapons technology and makes an impassioned plea for peace as a military officer who spent his career preparing for war.
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