Today’s digital economy is blurring the boundaries between computer science and economics — in Silicon Valley, on Wall Street, and increasingly on university campuses. Yale undergraduates interested ...

This article was written, edited and designed on laptop computers. Such foldable, transportable devices would have astounded computer scientists just a few decades ago, and seemed like sheer magic ...

The code cracking machines of the 1940’s are often referred to as the first computers, but they could not have been developed without the intricate machines that predated them by almost a hundred ...

At M.I.T., a new program called “artificial intelligence and decision-making” is now the second-most-popular undergraduate ...

WORCESTER, United Kingdom — It’s a warm day in early June and a group of students have gathered in the IT classroom at New College Worcester to show off their coding skills. But instead of poking at ...

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Teaching machines in the way that animal trainers mold the behavior of dogs or horses has been an important method for developing artificial intelligence and one that was recognized Wednesday with the ...

Ever since the invention of the computer, coders have been working in the medium of 1s and 0s, creating the modern world by directly or indirectly manipulating binary computing bits that can be in one ...

Humans had to carry out all their machining processes by hand for centuries. Even precision tools had to be maneuvered very carefully, inch by inch, by people holding the devices personally. That all ...

Rare World War II cryptography machines and dozens of vintage calculating devices have found a home at the Carnegie Mellon University Libraries. The special collection totals more than 50 machines, ...