It is not incredibly difficult to rear an artificial intelligence system into something resembling a human being — especially at the University of California, Berkeley. It would likely be the result ...

Work It Out @ Your Library is a multimedia initiative for families with preschoolers that takes place both in the library and in families’ homes. Libraries guide families during the library sessions, ...

Once upon a time computers filled entire rooms, reading numbers from spinning tapes and churning them through wires to do chains of basic arithmetic. Today they slip into our pockets, performing in a ...

Today, companies around the world face increasing economic and business uncertainty thanks to the volatile geopolitical environment and the rise of AI. In challenging contexts like this, it’s tempting ...

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Solvej Balle’s “On the Calculation of Volume” rethinks the familiar story of the endlessly repeating day. By Hilary Leichter Hilary Leichter is the author of the novels “Temporary” and “Terrace Story.

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Not everyone is an Excel spreadsheet expert and you may not always know how to write the formulas you need for a given data set. If you're having trouble figuring out the right formula for your data ...

Imagine you’re on a quest to understand the very nature of computation. You’re deep in the wilderness, far from any paths, and inscrutable messages are carved into the trunks of trees all around you — ...

When Dennis Cunningham was diagnosed with terminal cancer, he wanted his death to reflect the values he lived by. As a civil rights lawyer, Cunningham defended the Black Panthers, AIDS protestors, and ...