FALL'18 ISSUE
A student pulls out her phone, briefly looks at the camera, then begins to text away. With the the recent release of Apple's iPhone X, facial recognition technology has become even more pervasive. The technology, based on artificial intelligence and machine learning, has been developing for many years. However, in the past few years, we have seen a surge in its everyday use...
Facial recognition technology is combined with security cameras for beneficial purposes. Banks and street security cameras use facial recognition technology to help the police departments identify criminals...
In three years, you'll be watching The Office or cramming for a Physics test as a hunk of intelligent metal drives you to school. Autonomous vehicles seem like things of the future, but as with objects in the rearview mirror, they're a lot closer than they
seem. While the technology is still in the works, start preparing yourself for an Exeter in which the cars that drive by Front Street operate themselves. Most car companies in the race to build the first self-driving car have estimated that they will be done within a mere three years. The most obvious question is, how close are we to actually achieving this?
In terms of technology, most car companies are pretty close. There exist three main engineering challenges to building an autonomous car: perception, prediction, and path. First, vehicles need to be able to perceive the environment around them, including other cars, pedestrians, and obstacles, such as fallen trees or animals...
Walk into a second-grade classroom, and you'll find a scene vastly different from that of five years ago. Kids still sit on a rainbow-colored carpet. But, instead of propping open children's books in their laps, they may be tapping away at brand-new iPads. The popularity of technology in classrooms has soared, given the decrease in prices and increase in accessibility. Even as teaches are incorporating today's technology, that of tomorrow will bring much more drastic changes to the classrooms. Walk into tomorrow's
classrooms, and you may find kids interacting with holograms instead of highlighters.
The rise in tablet and computer use foreshadows the effect that AI can have. Over the past year, spending on tablets for K-12 has increased by 60 percent. In 2014, U.S. schools purchased a whopping 3.5 million tablets. This technology is not limited to wealthy areas. Prince George's Country in Maryland purchased more than 4,500 iPads for programs in select classrooms at more than 60 high-poverty schools
Technology is creeping into nearly every facet of society. We have grown accustomed to using artificial intelligence programs on our phones and interacting with devices such as Google Home, Amazon Alexa, and Siri. At the same time, artificial intelligence has also been dangerously increasing its presence in more controversial places such as social media. As if worrying about privacy invasions and internet tracking is not enough a new controversial topic has emerged: the usage of artificial intelligence in education. Specifically, AI in college admissions.
In many ways, the access to current technology right at our fingertips has been a boon in the college application process for students...
