An insight into the way machines make meaning. A few years ago I used an algorithm to help me write a science fiction story. Adam Hammond, an English professor, and Julian Brooke, a computer scientist ...

Sometimes there’s a little crack in the web that is just big enough to catch a glimpse of who the robots running the show think you are. But much of the time, there’s no way to tell why information is ...

Mashable’s series Algorithms explores the mysterious lines of code that increasingly control our lives — and our futures. “The Algorithm” is impenetrable. It’s mysterious, it’s all-knowing, it’s ...

Sep. 28—When Mark Jensenius was a baby, his family lived near Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. His mother, Linda, would take him for walks, and he would look up at the planes passing ...

Developing fixed-point algorithm descriptions used to require tradeoffs between design functionality, modeling of numerical precision, and validation (simulation) speed. Now, a new class of C++ ...

Writing software in C that is portable and reusable is quickly becoming a critical activity in the world of embedded software. But portable C Code doesn’t happen by accident; it requires intent and ...

Spoiler alert: there's nothing in there. There’s even a technological counterattack, as companies roll out technology designed to detect software-composed writing. But the bottom line is that ChatGPT ...

Trey Ellis is a novelist, screenwriter, playwright and Associate Professor at Columbia University. Updated January 28, 2015, 4:41 PM Nonfiction writing can be assessed, however, only using the ...