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Not long ago I was part of a discussion about using mechanical things to demonstrate computing concepts (such as building a learning Tic-Tac-Toe game out of matchboxes). This got my head spinning on different ways to use mechanical devices to compute things, whether or not such computation is useful. I figured I had enough Legos lying around the house to make something interesting. I started by thinking of some of the more famous early computers, such as Pascal’s calculator and Babbage&rsq...

The makers of “I AM ALAN TURING,” an experimental opera being produced out of Yale’s Center for Collaborative Arts and Media, used AI in creating the show.

The marvel of modern computing is a testament to centuries of cumulative intellectual struggle and breakthrough, a journey that unfurls itself from the rudimentary notion of calculation to the...

I've supervised a lot of great student projects in my nine years at MIT, but my inner nerdy teenager has never been as personally delighted by a project as it is right now.  Today, I'm proud to announce that Adam Yedidia, a PhD student at MIT (but an MEng student when he did most of this work),…

Many people are put off by the obscure symbols and strict rules of math, giving up on a problem as soon as they see both numbers and letters involved. But

A reference implementation of Alan Turing's 1936 paper, On Computable Numbers - GitHub - planetlambert/turing: A reference implementation of Alan Turing's 1936 paper, On Computable Numbers

I have been thinking and talking about World War II a lot more than usual in the last couple weeks. Lewistown has been given the title of WWII Heritage City,

The Google Doodle is 25 years old, but which are the best ones?

With world governments and AI leaders in attendance, this Novembers summit could be a catalyst for the creation of momentous AI policy.

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