Slipshod Cybersecurity for U.S. Defense Dept. Weapons Systems

After decades of DoD recalcitrance, the Government Accountability Office has given up making recommendations in favor of public shamingLast week, the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) released yet another report on the state of the U.S. Department of Defense’s cybersecurity. The GAO’s conclusions can be summed up in two words: unsurprisingly abysmal. The…

Toward Anthropomorphic Machine Learning

Future intelligent machines will be more human-friendly and human-like, while offering much higher throughput and automation, thus augmenting our (human) capabilities. Anthropomorphic machine learning is an emerging direction for future development in artificial intelligence (AI) and data science. This revolutionary shift offers human-like abilities to the next generation of machine…