Then people realized that they should really be stating what the program is supposed to accomplish first — the program’s behaviors. In the early 1980s, I realized that one practical method of writing ...

If this kind of writing can be done by a machine that doesn’t have a single thought in its head, what does that tell us about what we’ve been asking of students.

A few years ago I used an algorithm to help me write a science fiction story. Adam Hammond, an English professor, and Julian Brooke, a computer scientist, had created a program called SciFiQ, and ...

This tutorial series is a beginner’s guide to data structures and algorithms in Java. You’ll learn: How to recognize and use array and list data structures in your Java programs.

On May 4, Google released a broad core algorithm update called the May 2020 Core Update. The May 2020 Core Update is now rolling out live. As is typical with these updates, it will typically take ...

Then, the company trains an algorithm to make predictions as to how a human grader might score an essay based on that data. Depending on the program, those predictions can be consistently wrong in ...

“Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”—John F. Kennedy, 1961 When it comes to political speeches, great ones are few and far between. But ordinary ...

The Navy's next big research program wants to make the sea service's software algorithms much, much smarter -- so much so that they can automatically detect concealed threats based on incomplete data.