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Earlier this semester I entered my senior computer science class and greeted my students wearing a T-shirt that boldly declared: “Join the Anti-Revolution Party!” One of the topics for that day was the “Silicon Valley narrative” which seeks wholesale revolution by disrupting the current ways of doing things through technology.
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Two Canadian researchers, Yoshua Bengio and Geoffrey Hinton, were the 2018 winners of the million dollar Association for Computing Machinery A.M. Turing Award (often called the Nobel Prize of computing) along with American Yann LeCun.
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The moon and stars, flocks and herds, wild animals, birds and fish. Psalm 8 lists each of these as part of God’s creation. But how do computers fit into creation?
As machines take on more tasks formerly done by humans, these machines may soon have to make choices that are moral in nature. We all (mostly) appreciate the safety features added to newly designed cars to make our driving safer and easier, such as rear-view cameras and adaptive cruse-control.
In many ways it seems very strange to me that we can talk about something as connected to the nature of God at the level of human genes. In Genesis, one of the first things we learn is that God spoke, making language one of the things we know is part of who God is.
Our motivation to do science is different from non-Christians. But while this may change how we see science, it should not change how we do science.
It is one thing to be rebuked for something you’ve done. It is quite another to be rebuked by a complete stranger.
An article in the New Atlantis titled “The Architecture of Evil” opens with the provocative statement: “Someone designed the furnaces of the Nazi death camps.”
My recent trip to the DR showed me another side of this picturesque country as I visited a number of fledgling Christian schools which are part of COCREF (Colegios Cristianos Reformados). This network of 15 Christian schools seeks to serve roughly 3,700 children, some of whom are among the most neglected children in the DR.
It has always been my utopian dream that my family would be this tech-free, simplistic, creatively inspired unit. That we would be free from the obsessions of the world. Yet technology creeps in and can easily take control of our lives.
However, while smart and connected devices provide convenience and other benefits, they come with a variety of security and privacy concerns.
In Scripture Jesus is sometimes called Teacher or Rabbi, a teacher of the law, but I doubt he ever taught statistics; it is possible he may have taught carpentry. However, from Jesus’ teaching of his disciples, we learn that true teaching is a sacred act of love for your students.
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