A recent study, which I wrote about last week, makes the case for building students’ depth of knowledge in science—as opposed to focusing on “breadth,” a long list of topics across the subject. But in ...

Times have never been better for computer science workers. Jobs in computing are growing at twice the national rate of other types of jobs. By 2020, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, there ...

NEW YORK, Sept. 16 (UPI) --In the coming decade, all of New York City's 1.1 million public school students will have access to computer science education, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced Wednesday. The ...

Supercomputer poses as 13-year-old boy, becomes first ever to pass Turing Test. June 9, 2014— -- Like many 13-year-old boys, Eugene Goostman claims to be a know-it-all. The one thing that ...

Asking students and schools to switch to a new mode of assessment does affect students’ performance, but problems might be more short-lived than some educators fear, finds a new study by the American ...

The world's smallest computer (around a trillion can fit in a drop of water) might one day go on record again as the tiniest medical kit. The world’s smallest computer (around a trillion can fit in a ...

A computer program has made history by becoming the first to pass the artificial intelligence test set in the 1950s by mathematician, codebreaker and computer science pioneer Alan Turing. Turing ...

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Safety is imperative before new medicines are given to patients—which is why ...

Judges in England were fooled into thinking the computer program they were conversing with was a human on Saturday — making it the first to pass the 65-year-old Turing Test. "Eugene Goostman" is not a ...