Pub Date : 2025-06-06DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11027749
Mike Colias
One summer morning in 2021, Lem Yeung opened an email from Ford's HR department. He stared at his screen. Yeung, a mechanical engineer, had worked on internal-combustion-engine development at Ford for 30 years, the exact tenure that made him eligible for the generous retirement package that Detroit's car companies have long offered. The son of Chinese immigrants, Yeung was also part of Ford power-train lineage—both of his parents also were engineers who developed engines at the iconic company.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-06DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11027734
Matthew Coxon
Despite advances in headset hardware and thoughtful software design, virtual reality can still be a nauseating, dizzying, and sweaty experience for some people. From horrific rides on virtual roller coasters to alarming leaps with Beat Saber, you don't have to talk to many people before someone shares a vomit-inducing experience.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-06DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11027751
Allison Marsh
On 4 July 1997, Mars Pathfinder parachuted through the Martian atmosphere and bounced to a landing encased in glorified airbags. The next day the airbags retracted, and a microwave-oven-size rover named Sojourner eased its way down the ramp, becoming the first human-made vehicle to roll around on the surface of another planet. For the next 83 days, Sojourner captivated the world with inspiring images from the Red Planet.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-06DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11027748
Harry Goldstein
Eight years is a long time in the world of patents. When we last published what we then called the Patent Power Scorecard, in 2017, it was a different technological and social landscape-Google had just filed a patent application on the transformer architecture, a momentous advance that spawned the generative AI revolution. China was just beginning to produce quality, affordable electric vehicles at scale. And the COVID pandemic wasn't on anyone's dance card.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-06DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11027745
Vikram K. Jaswal;Diwakar Krishnamurthy;Mea Wang
Throughout his schooling, it was assumed he was incapable of learning to read and write. But for the past 30 minutes, he's been wearing an augmented-reality (AR) headset and spelling single words on the HoloBoard, a virtual keyboard that hovers in the air in front of him. And now, at the end of a study session, a researcher asks Jeremy (not his real name) what he thought of the experience.
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Pub Date : 2025-06-06DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.11027740
Edd Gent
Carolina Cruz-Neira is living proof of just how far a “plan B” can take you. Growing up, she was determined to become a professional ballet dancer. But after injury ended her ballet dreams, Cruz-Neira went on to become a pioneer of virtual-reality technology.
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Pub Date : 2025-04-09DOI: 10.1109/MSPEC.2025.10960476
Bruce Schneier;Nathan E. Sanders;Dariusz Jemielniak;Edmon Begoli;Amir Sadovnik
As Artificial Intelligence reshapes society, our traditional safety nets and ethical frameworks are being put to the test. How can we make sure that AI remains a force for good? • Here we bring you three fresh visions for safer AI. In the first essay, security expert Bruce Schneier and data scientist Nathan E. Sanders explore how AI's “weird” error patterns create a need for innovative security measures that go beyond methods honed on human mistakes. Dariusz Jemielniak, an authority on Internet culture and technology, argues that the classic robot ethics embodied in Isaac Asimov's famous rules of robotics need an update to counterbalance AI deception and a world of deepfakes. And in the final essay, the AI researchers Edmon Begoli and Amir Sadovnik suggest taking a page from the search for intelligent life in the stars; they propose rigorous standards for detecting the possible emergence of human-level AI intelligence. As AI advances with breakneck speed, these cross-disciplinary strategies may help us keep our hands on the reins.→
随着人工智能重塑社会，我们的传统安全网和道德框架正在受到考验。我们如何确保人工智能仍然是一种有益的力量？•在这里，我们为您带来更安全的人工智能的三个新愿景。在第一篇文章中，安全专家Bruce Schneier和数据科学家Nathan E. Sanders探讨了人工智能的“奇怪”错误模式如何创造出对创新安全措施的需求，而这些措施不仅仅是针对人类错误的方法。互联网文化和技术权威Dariusz Jemielniak认为，艾萨克·阿西莫夫（Isaac Asimov）著名的机器人规则中体现的经典机器人伦理需要更新，以抵消人工智能欺骗和深度造假的世界。在最后一篇文章中，人工智能研究人员埃德蒙·贝戈利和阿米尔·萨多夫尼克建议借鉴寻找外星智慧生命的经验；他们提出了严格的标准来检测可能出现的人类水平的人工智能。随着人工智能以惊人的速度发展，这些跨学科的策略可能会帮助我们掌握控制权
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