Computers need programming languages to function. That’s just a simple fact of life. However, these languages didn’t just ...

Linguist Anne Curzan delights in the nuances and evolution of language. She says we should embrace they/them as singular pronouns---which have actually been used for hundreds of years. Anne Curzan is ...

Are you old enough to remember the floppy disk? Take a moment to enjoy the evolution of computers as seen through Jeff Hay’s 19-year history with a company called Contoso, that sure looks a lot like ...

Joshua Plotkin’s dive into the evolution of language began with clarity—and also a lack of it. Today, if you wanted to talk about something that’s clear, you’d say that it has clarity. But if you were ...

If you have ever owned a computer, especially over previous decades, you know that the type of storage used has changed many times. Thankfully, we’re long removed from the days of hard drives taking ...

Artificial intelligence research has a lot to learn from nature. My work links biology with computation every day, but recently the rest of the world was reminded of the connection: The 2018 Nobel ...

In order to illustrate the potential of using computers in the processing data from non-numerical sources, we have chosen a question of socio-economic history. A well established thesis in ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Computer scientists have long dreamed of the possibilities of what artificial intelligence ...