AI has always been compared to human intelligence, but that may not be the right way to think about it. Knowing what it does ...

Provost Rich Wicentowski talks about his approach to leading Swarthmore's academic programming through strategic planning, faculty interaction, and other college issues.

Working in secret for more than two years, a group of mathematicians has set out to resolve of the longest and most bitter ...

Last year Universal Quantum, the quantum computing firm spun out of Sussex University, announced it was collaborating with the Open Quantum Institute (OQI) on using quantum computing in drug discovery ...

Computer simulations can help people gain a better understanding of the situation faced by migrants. This is shown by a new study in which 148 teenagers were assigned random migration pathways, with ...

Early in the Covid-19 pandemic, the governor of New Jersey made an unusual admission: He’d run out of COBOL developers. The state’s unemployment insurance systems were written in the 60-year-old ...

The Modelling-Informed Medicine Centre will create computer models or digital twins of organs and diseases to better understand how diseases of the lungs, liver, and kidneys progress, to discover and ...

In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird. Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del Plato ...

Apple’s Mac mini is back in the AI headlines. Last month, Perplexity released its own version of the OpenClaw “personal AI assistant” idea with a feature called Perplexity Computer. Now the company is ...

The Computer Guy of Chicago strikes when you least expect. Sitting in a coffeehouse. Reading your phone on the train. Working out. Waiting for food. Walking down the street. When the Computer Guy ...

Anthropic opened its virtual "Briefing: Enterprise Agents" event on Tuesday with a provocation. Kate Jensen, the company's head of Americas, told viewers that the hype around enterprise AI agents in ...

With Apple’s 50th anniversary fast approaching, the Computer History Museum is planning a series of programs and a temporary exhibit to celebrate the company’s history. Here are the details. The ...