University of Cambridge researchers are building emotionally intelligent computers. Is this the future of man and machine communication?

The computer age has been characterized as both the greatest wonder of technology and our worst nightmare. In only a few decades, these often mystifying machines have transformed our existence, easing ...

Scientist Thomas Hartung wants to create computers that run on brain-like collections of cells called organoids — which could prove faster and more efficient than today's machines.

Life's crowning achievement, the human brain, seeks to mold for itself the power and directness of the computing machine, while endowing the machine with its own economy of thought and movement ...

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In a resource-constrained future, training dollars are more precious. Advanced computer simulations will provide realistic training at a fraction of the cost.

A future in which conversational computers predominate has been a staple of computer science chit-chat since the 1940s, when Alan Turing set out to build a machine that would respond like a human ...

Examining the future of personal computers in an increasingly mobile world.

Since the first personal computers started showing up in classrooms in the mid-1970s, schools have been struggling to figure out what to do with them. It wasn't uncommon to find donated, never ...