Ian (he/him) is a contributing writer and a communications professional. He holds a master’s degree in sociology, and currently, he a is a doctoral candidate completing his dissertation. Brenna ...

The next great transformation may be the rise of networked minds, the merging of human and machine intelligence into ...

To play off the famous quote (above) by economist Robert Solow: You can see the age of AI/machine learning everywhere but in the productivity statistics. At least so far. And that’s an important ...

Artificial intelligence learned how to generate text and art better than ever before, while computer scientists developed algorithms that solved long-standing problems. In 2023, artificial ...

When we first saw [DiPDoT’s] homebrew computer, we thought it was an Altair 8800. But, no. While it has a very familiar front panel, the working parts are all based on relays. While it isn’t finished, ...

Computers are muscling in on humans in more ways than one. Only a few years ago they were still simple-minded beasts that could understand nothing but predigested figures. Later they acquired senses ...

I was only a few pages into Alvy Ray Smith’s new book, A Biography of the Pixel, when I realized that all of my preconceptions about what it might be were wrong. A legend of computer graphics, Smith ...