If virtual characters can be as smart as humans, having free will, can we kill or harm them?

As the country grew, each census required greater effort than the last. That problem led to the invention of the punched card – and the birth of an industry.

As the pandemic pushes healthcare online, it’s time to stop overlooking the environmental impacts.

The traveling salesperson problem is so difficult that practical solutions can never be perfect – only good enough. The challenge is coming up with the best approximations.

Humans often stumble when they encounter the unexpected, but they tend to adapt and move on. Artificial intelligence systems, not so much.

Training neural networks burns through a lot of energy. As the AI field grows, it's working to keep its carbon foot print from growing with it.

A close look at how you decide what clothes to put on in the morning can help you understand how computers work.

The gender gap in computing performance has dramatically narrowed, but a confidence gap remains.

Nobody expected that allowing more communication would make computational problems more reliable.