So what are the things that we are using computers for that are totally new? What can you do with the help of a computer that you absolutely couldn’t without? I’m not sure there is a crisp ...

At The Atlantic, we're using Watson as an occasion to think ... What about automation? Can a computer do the lawyer's job? One of the primary research areas in artificial intelligence has focused ...

Computer processors can actually only do one thing at a time ... It turns out, that’s a pretty apt description of what we do when we multitask, said MIT neuroscientist Earl Miller. "You can only think ...

“We don’t want to build a computer just for a single task,” said Soonwon Choi, a physicist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “Other than Shor’s algorithm, what else can we do with a ...