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For pioneering computer scientist Donald Knuth, good coding is synonymous with beautiful expression. Donald Knuth is a computer scientist who came of age with his field. During the nascent years of ...

The trendy new chatbot has many skills, and one of them is writing "polymorphic" malware that will destroy your computer. Reading time 2 minutes ChatGPT, the multi-talented AI-chatbot, has another ...

The Drexel Writing Center supports all members of our Drexel University community to develop as writers. We offer access to free, confidential consultations on writing projects, from interpreting ...

One of the highlights of my first three years as a literature professor at MIT—and indeed, of my 15-year career as an educator—has been the recent discovery that some of my students, past and present, ...