In an MIT classroom, a professor lectures while students diligently write down notes they will reread later to study and ...

In an era of ever-expanding technology, more students are swapping notebooks for iPads as they look for new ways to stay ...

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

The milestone makes machine-learning trailblazer Yoshua Bengio the most cited researcher on Google Scholar. Computer ...

Yoshua Bengio talks about his efforts to identify — and address — the risks posed by AI.

Previous attempts at building a chemical computer have been too simple, too rigid or too hard to scale, but an approach based ...

IBM announced on Wednesday it has built a new experimental quantum computing chip called Loon that demonstrates it hit a key ...

Creating revolutionary pharmaceutical drugs, testing new materials for cars and simulating how market scenarios can affect banks — these are just some of the tasks that could take months or years to ...

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