It’s fascinating to think about the power in our pocket—today’s smartphones have the computing power of a military computer from 50 years ago that was the size of an entire room. However ...

Then, in the mid-20th century, machines began to take on the bulk of computing work, and the definition of “computer” changed. Now, leading computer scientists and technologists say the ...

On the surface, statistical translation and computer-assisted proofs seem different. But the two have something important in common. In mathematics, a proof isn’t just a justification for a result. It ...