Long before modern computers existed, scientists and philosophers wondered whether machines could imitate human reasoning. This video traces the evolution of that idea from Aristotle’s logic and ...
Ancient Egyptians had none of our technology, but managed to complete the megalith almost unnaturally fast.
As a young art major at Viterbo University in La Crosse, Wisconsin, Dr. Barbara Johnson once stood before blank canvases ...
Opinion

AI vs. ideology

As a computer science professor, I’ve spent the last 40 years telling students “Our job as technical professionals is to make politicians’ lives difficult.” Judging from the Colorado legislature’s ...
IBM (NYSE: IBM) and ETH Zurich announced today a 10-year collaboration to advance the next generation of algorithms at the ...
Epia Neuro’s brain-computer interface will include a motorized glove to help stroke patients recover movement in their hand.
With around 26,000 qubits, the encryption could be broken in a day, the researchers report in a paper submitted March 30 to ...
Charles H. Bennett and Gilles Brassard, winners of this year’s Turing Award, spent their lives touting the advantages of the ...
Quantum computers of the future may be closer to reality thanks to new research from Caltech and Oratomic, a Caltech-linked start-up company. Theorists and experimentalists teamed up to develop a new ...
To this day, in the known universe, only one example exists of a system capable of general-purpose intelligence. That system ...
Data science is everywhere, a driving force behind modern decisions. When a streaming service suggests a movie, a bank sends ...