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Exclusive interview with Judea Pearl, winner of the 2011 Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) A.M. Turing Award for Contributions that Transformed Artificial Intelligence
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Our colleague Marie C. recently traveled to London for the first time, and recounts highlights from her extended layover, Anthony-Bourdain style (but maybe more touristy than gritty).
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In invalidating most of Arizona’s controversial immigration law, the Supreme Court has put the onus of immigration reform (or lack thereof) back where it belongs—with the U.S. Congress. The majority on the Court correctly held that immigration policy rests firmly with the federal government. With the Arizona decision out of the way, the difficult work remains in crafting federal immigration policy that meets the demands of the twenty first century.
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The notion that the popular press has a crucial role to play in modern democracies, and therefore must maintain its independence from government influence, is in the air these days
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Deep Throat has hit middle age. The classic porn film starring Linda Lovelace turns 40 this summer, having enjoyed its premiere in New York City in June 1972. Rather than experiencing a midlife crisis, which might entail fading into obscure Hollywood history—a relic of a brief, bygone age when pornography reigned on the big screen—Deep Throat is hotter than ever.
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Robert O. Bucholz, the co-author of London (on sale July 24), reports from his recent trip to London during the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee.
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It’s your last chance to show us what the Swinging City looks like to your London Eye. Submit your photo and tell us why you love it before it’s too late to win an advance copy of London: A Social and Cultural History, 1550–1750.
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In June 1871 Henrietta met Richard Buckley Litchfield, a barrister and lecturer in music at the London Working Men's College; they were married in the parish church in her parents’ village of Downe, Kent, on 31 August. The intimate and deeply reflective journal entries from July, which hint at originally unrequited passion, cover the period of their courtship. Reading at times like teenage romantic fiction, with all the agonies of uncertainty and longing, it also dissects Henrietta’s reasons for choosing to be married in church–a decision she did not reach lightly–and her sadness at leaving her parents.
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