To a programmer, code can seem a “domain of sorcery” in which strings of characters have power in the real world.

Basically, Hamlet and Ophelia are “variables” to which numerical values get assigned. The nouns “Lord” and “King” each have a value of +1, and adjectives such as “sweet” and “beautiful” act as ...

Bill and Melinda Gates' contrasting memoirs detail their lives, marriage, and divorce, reaffirming their humanity despite ...

Charlene Roberts-Hayden was like a character out of the book and movie “Hidden Figures” — just born a generation later, and working as a pioneering Black woman in computer programming on US ...

Learning to code has long been seen as the ticket to a lucrative, secure career in tech. Now, the release of advanced coding ...

Lisp, originally LISP, stands for list processing. This family of programming languages is the second-oldest one that’s still in use.

Both are based on binary systems, and the Dutch artist Anna Lucia Goense is mining that fact for inspiration. Needlework and ...

But fictional portraits of AI have pretty much never looked like the actual present of AI. All those killer Terminators, rebellious Westworld robots, and nuke-hijacking supercomputers have nothing to ...

FALL RIVER — The following students graduated from B.M.C. Durfee High School at the academic top of the senior class.

Smart search, not writing, is the biggest AI benefit at work, write Georgetown University professor Cal Newport ...

UB faculty members Shermali Gunawardena, Barbara Prinari, Bina Ramamurthy, Adrian Rodriguez-Riccelli, Hua “Helen” Wang and ...

The scrolls were first noticed by Bedouin shepherds in the Judean Desert, which is near the Dead Sea, in 1947. Since then, ...