In a world dominated by algorithms, it's common to associate them with a negative bias. Mathematician Clara Grima defends ...

When Tania Roy began her Thomas Langford Lecture on October 22, speaking to faculty from across Duke’s campus, she shared ...

Generative AI tools like Google Gemini and ChatGPT are reshaping computer science education, the researchers say, as the skills students need to learn to write software evolve because of these tools.

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

If you are wondering what anthropologists actually do these days they are very hard at work dealing with extant cultures. Most recently, Brandeis anthropologist Janet McIntosh has been studying ...

People are starting to “talk like AI,” according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman. While teachers and business leaders complain about people using AI chatbots to write and communicate — and more and more ...

Night after night, the buses pull up on the tarmac outside the Parris Island Marine Corps recruit training center in South Carolina. Usually, they are full of young men—still boys, by some ...

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

One of the questions fans have asked about the Xenomorphs since 1979’s original Alienis “just how smart is the alien?” The creature definitely had problem-solving skills of a sort. But as far as we ...

Dare to enter The Twilight Zone and beyond and meet artist and writer Henry Chamberlain, creator of the graphic novel George's Run: A Writer's Journey Through The Twilight Zone. Dare to enter The ...

Have you ever wondered how computers understand what we want them to do? It all comes down to programming languages. These special sets of instructions have changed a lot over the years, from really ...