In a new book, MIT literature professor Benjamin Mangrum explores how we deal with our doubts and fears about computing ...

In Rolling Stone’s recent cover story on the 20th anniversary of Radiohead’s OK Computer, singer Thom Yorke says that if he could go back to 1997 he’d tell his younger self to “lighten the ...

In Rolling Stone’s recent cover story on the 20th anniversary of Radiohead’s OK Computer, singer Thom Yorke says that if he could go back to 1997 he’d tell his younger self to “lighten the ...

Scientists at the University of Edinburgh tried to create a computer that tells jokes. They created a sexist jerk instead.

If robots ever conquer the world, in other words, we’re in for a dystopian future of horrible puns. What Makes Things Funny? One problem is that for a computer to truly be humorous, most people ...

This article was originally published with the title “ The Joke's on Your Computer: The Latest Humor Coded into Software ” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 305 No. 5 (November 2011) doi:10 ...