Are robots coming for us and our work? The dystopian answer to that question is clearly “yes,” a perspective that has dominated our conversation about artificial beings ever since the word “robot” was ...

One of Audrey Watters’s observations in her deeply researched Teaching Machines is that ed-tech evangelists seldom make an effort to learn the history of educational technologies. For those ...

Graphs are everywhere. Whenever a delivery company models a road network, a power grid operator tracks the flow of ...

Electronic communication forms such as text, image sharing and social media rely on robust and reliable networks. But those networks can break down during natural disasters, power grid failures or ...

To its 5,000 salesmen across the U.S., Grolier Inc., publisher of America’s oldest encyclopedia, last week handed out an odd-looking new product to sell door to door. A green, windowed, sheet-metal ...

One of the most difficult parts of limiting the spread of fake news is that humans have a hard time filtering what is legit from what is bogus. But if humans can’t tell the difference between what’s ...

Are you tired of telling machines what to do and what not to do? It’s a large part of regular people’s days – operating dishwashers, smartphones and cars. It’s an even bigger part of life for ...

From the 1920s American psychologists experimented with teaching using machines. Inspired, in part, by the expansion of schooling, especially at the secondary level; the success of paper-and-pencil ...

Before giving machines a sense of morality, humans have to first define morality in a way computers can process. A difficult but not impossible task. Although this future is still decades away, ...

As published in The SciFi Generation and TechXplore. MSU's Arend Hintze, assistant professor of integrative biology & computer science and engineering, wrote this piece for The Conversation, an ...