Pop culture recently scored a hit against haters that question its value, thanks to MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). Researchers there have been exposing their ...

Quantum computing is, if you are not already familiar, simply put, a type of computation that uses qubits to encode data instead of the traditional bit (1s and 0s). In short, it allows for the ...

The threat that machines will act independently of their operators has stoked fears for longer than artificial intelligence has been a concept — but could a computer actually learn to scare us? Enter ...

Think about how you read. Do you say every word out loud to yourself in your head? That’s a process called internal vocalization or subvocalization, and when you say words to yourself in your head, ...

Advances in voice recognition technology have seen it become a more viable form of computer interface, but it's not necessarily a quieter one. To prevent the click-clacking of keyboards being replaced ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

MIT student Tom Ouyang and Professor Randall Davis are intending to create a computerized system that can interpret sketches and drawings. Initially, the foundation for this program was to enable to ...

You may have heard the expression, "Work smarter, not harder." When applied to humans, it means (partially) that we should do our best work on the tasks that are the most important, instead of wasting ...

Thanks to social media, it’s easy to come across reporting from unfamiliar news sources around the world. But it can often be difficult to tell which sites are presenting the straight truth, which ...

"We’re 3 female computer scientists at MIT, here to answer questions about programming and academia. Ask us anything!" we wrote for our Reddit Ask Me Anything session last Friday. And then, boom: “Why ...