Inspired by the number of people that the Khan Academy's free video lectures reached, Stanford professor Sebastian Thrun put his own artificial intelligence class online and enrolled 160,000 students. Continue reading…
Google App Inventor, the simplified Android app creation tool that went dark last year, is getting a new lease on life as an open-source project at MIT. The App Inventor source code was released by Continue reading…
A DARPA challenge to reconstruct shredded documents has been won, two days before the deadline. The winning team, All Your Shreds Are Belong To U.S., developed an algorithm that looked for similar Continue reading…
When Jeopardy master Ken Jennings recounted his loss to computer Watson early this year, he referred to the game show's questions as an "open domain of human knowledge — every subject imaginable." Continue reading…
