For decades, computer science students have been taught a central skill: using computers to solve problems. In practice, that ...

President Barack Obama, to kick off the annual Computer Science Education Week, has become the first US president (at least as far as we know) to write a computer program. While this might not seem ...

Leslie Lamport revolutionized how computers talk to each other. Now he’s working on how engineers talk to their machines. Leslie Lamport may not be a household name, but he’s behind a few of them for ...

Romera-Paredes and colleagues’ work is the latest step in a long line of research that attempts to create programs automatically by taking inspiration from biological evolution, a field called genetic ...

A rtificial intelligence made exponential leaps in 2020. Self-driving vehicles are now creeping into the mainstream while advances in machine learning are changing the way we write code and discover ...

Colloquy: Join an online discussion about whether writing computer viruses can be taught responsibly and whether it is appropriate to do so in a computer-security curriculum.By BROCK READ When the ...

This artificial intelligence bot can answer questions, write essays, summarize documents and write software. But deep down, it doesn't know what's true. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Do you have free will? Can you make your own decisions? Or are you more like an automaton, just moving as required by your constituent parts? Probably, like most people, you feel you have something ...