Rather than using computers to help children learn, one group of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, is far more interested in using children to help computers learn. It’s not the ...

For six or seven decades, computers have been based on processing electronic 1s and 0s. Now, computer scientists are breaking out of that paradigm in strange new directions, as they seek new ways to ...

Northwestern Engineering’s Ken Forbus is closing the gap between humans and machines. Using cognitive science theories, Forbus and his collaborators have developed a model that could give computers ...

The world of artificial intelligence has exploded in recent years. Computers armed with AI do everything from drive cars to pick movies you'll probably like. Some have warned we're putting too much ...

Clifford Nass, a communications professor at Stanford University, has been studying the ways humans interact with computers to tease out some of the intricacies of how people relate to each other. He ...

Predicting the future position of objects comes natural for humans, but it is quite difficult for a computer. (Credit: Shutterstock) In many ways, the human brain is still the best computer around.

Using a machine learning technique called deep learning, computing systems now rival humans at many tasks, including image and speech recognition. “This relies on giving a computer large amounts of ...

Ask most computer programmers what would happen if, suddenly, their computers got a thousand times faster. Most would rhapsodize about being able to immediately put that extra power to good use. Ask ...

In retirement, 72-year-old Myron Smith has all the potential to become a full-fledged computer geek: unlimited free time, a desire to surf the Internet and, most importantly, his own IBM desktop ...

Computers have advanced by leaps and bounds in recent years. Yet even the best artificial intelligence systems have been lacking in humans' unique ability to learn new concepts. For example, people ...