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Peter Grad

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Peter Grad was a reporter, columnist and editor at newspapers in his hometown of the Bronx; Meriden, Conn., and then (for 32 years) in New Jersey at The Record. He was the Op-Ed Page editor at The Record for 18 years and also contributed a weekly computer column beginning in the nineties under the titles "The Computer Tutor" and "The PC Guy."" He designed a prototype for a video- and audio-enhanced online multimedia newspaper for The Record years before that became the norm for the nation's.

Articles by Peter Grad

Tech Xplore / Multiple 'selves' of modular agents boost AI learning

How and why we make thousands of decisions every day has long proven to be a popular area of research and commentary.

Jul 17, 2023
Tech Xplore / Netflix says its magenta approach beats green screen

Green screen technology has been around nearly a century. Some 45 million moviegoers were mesmerized by the special effects of "The Wizard of Oz" when it hit theaters in 1939. The magical scenes in Emerald City were the first ...

Jul 10, 2023
Tech Xplore / Intel reports high-rendering graphics with low-power GPUs

Setting its sights on evolving graphics processing units in a growing universe of generative AI, Intel announced the release of several papers outlining efforts it is pursuing in what observers say is a multibillion-dollar ...

Jul 10, 2023
Phys.org / Superconducting nanowire camera will explore brain cells, space

Researchers have made a breakthrough in the development of a camera so sensitive it can detect a single photon.

Jul 5, 2023
Tech Xplore / GitHub's Copilot may lead to global $1.5 trillion GDP boost

A study of the soaring use of artificial intelligence in software creation says we are in the midst of "a sea change" in program development that will ultimately boost local global gross domestic product by $1.5 trillion ...

Jun 30, 2023
Tech Xplore / Corporate collaboration bolsters quantum encryption

Toshiba Europe and global telecommunications corporation Orange say they have achieved a significant advance in securing network communications from ever-more powerful computer attacks.

Jun 27, 2023
Tech Xplore / DeepMind unveils self-training RoboCat

An unknown admirer of felines once remarked, "Cats and computers both have one thing in common—they both rule the Internet."

Jun 26, 2023
Tech Xplore / Bugs give robotic arms a hand

Researchers at three Japanese universities exploring the potential benefits of collaborations between robots and living creatures found bugs in their project.

Jun 21, 2023
Tech Xplore / Study says AI data contaminates vital human input

At the turn of this century, Jeff Bezos popularized the use of mechanical turks—low-paid workers working remotely with perhaps thousands of others on tiny parts of larger computer projects—to ensure a human perspective on ...

Jun 20, 2023
Tech Xplore / AI models feeding on AI data may face death spiral

Large language models are generating verbal pollution that threatens to undermine the very data such models are trained on.

Jun 19, 2023
Tech Xplore / Google StyleDrop generates images from text

It took Da Vinci 16 years to paint the Mona Lisa. Some say he needed 12 years just to paint her lips.

Jun 14, 2023
Tech Xplore / Meta's AI MusicGen makes music from text prompts

The 19th century philosopher Thomas Carlyle once declared, "Music is well said to be the speech of angels."

Jun 13, 2023
Tech Xplore / Did you hear the one about ChatGPT telling jokes? Study highlights challenges of humor for large language models

People are feverishly embracing ChatGPT as they explore new means of academic research, coding, audience research, customer support, e-mail communications, summarizing documents and job searches.

Jun 12, 2023
Tech Xplore / DeepMind achieves giant leap in sorting speed

Sorting, or data structuring, has been a core principle of computing operations since the first computers were developed.

Jun 12, 2023
Tech Xplore / Engine treatment can slash jet noise

There's a song anyone who lives near an airport or directly under the flight path of incoming and departing jets daily wishes they could play: Simon and Garfunkel's "The Sound of Silence."

Jun 5, 2023