Creating Artificial Intelligence Based on the Real Thing
By STEVE LOHR
Facing the physical limits of conventional design, researchers work to design a computing architecture that more closely resembles that of the brain.
China’s booming economy and growing technological infrastructure may thrust it to the forefront of the next generation of computing, many American experts say.
Facing the physical limits of conventional design, researchers work to design a computing architecture that more closely resembles that of the brain.
Computer science study in Africa shows great promise, with one Ugandan university even charting its own course in many aspects of mobile computing ahead of the developed world.
A snapshot of the rapidly changing world of computing, communications and technology.
The business of Silicon Valley today is less about focusing on an industry than it is about a continuous process of innovation with technology, across a widening swath of fields.
The science historian George Dyson, author of the new book “Turing’s Cathedral,” talks about the genius of Alan Turing and John von Neumann, and growing up in the birthplace of the H-bomb.
As silicon processors grow more packed with each generation, they lose efficiency, and researchers are looking for a new medium.
The author Neal Stephenson’s reputation for prescience about the online world is well earned, even if he regards it lightly.
Cosmologists have measured the biggest black holes ever found, work that could shed light on the formation and evolution of galaxies.
An effort to find radio signals from extraterrestrial civilizations starts anew using an innovative set of radio telescopes.
Global emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil-fuel burning jumped by 5.9 percent in 2010, upending the notion that a brief decline during the recession might persist.
There are many ways to mark the 100th anniversary of the world’s most famous shipwreck, but time is running out for a submersible trip to the deep.
An interview with the Harvard psychologist and linguist on violence, language and Twitter.
Readers are invited to make predictions and collaboratively edit this timeline on the future of computing.
From scheduling conference rooms to rooting out incipient tumors, computers that can go to the information that we care greatly about
A Google team’s self-driving cars have traveled nearly 200,000 miles on public highways in California and Nevada, 100 percent safely.
Until now, it has been hard to see how to make individualized education affordable. But advances in technology may provide a path to this goal.
Quantum computing is one of the most exciting things happening in science right now. Just not for the reasons you usually hear.
Anticipating security threats is not merely a matter of reasoning abstractly about how new technology might raise new risks; it requires an understanding of human nature.
With a harvest of data from a wired planet, computing has evolved from sensing local information to analyzing it to being able to control it.
The Internet is a belief system, a philosophy about the effectiveness of decentralized, bottom-up innovation. And it’s a philosophy that has begun to change how we think about creativity itself.
Computer scientists may have the best skills — they can use machines, algorithms and the wisdom of the crowd — to fight cancer.
We are in a world nobody designed or expected, driving full tilt toward — a wall? a cliff? a new dawn? We must choose wisely, as if we could.
Open platforms, low development costs and a huge and growing market put China in line to emerge as a leader in computing innovation.
In whatever forms it takes, we can expect the interplay between computing and networking to increase, creating rich, unexpected and intimate fusions.
Can studies of Earth's cold times help clarify what lies ahead as greenhouse gases build?