I was surprised to recently learn that the first chatbot, named ELIZA, was created at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1966. It simulated a therapist and represented an early […] ...

OpenAI has a Mac "superapp" in development that unifies its ChatGPT app, Codex coding platform, and Atlas browser, reports ...

Had they included just one of Tony Hoare’s achievements, many scientific careers would be considered prestigious enough. His had a long list, unfortunately closed by his passing away at the age of 92 ...

Genevieve Lipp reframes teamwork as a virtue as part of her efforts to integrate ethics into her First-Year Computing class.

UC San Diego cognitive scientist Philip Guo created Python Tutor, a free tool that makes code “visible” step by step. The research behind it earned a Test of Time award, recog ...

By Cade Metz Cade Metz has reported on quantum technologies since the 1990s. In the mid-1980s, Charles Bennett and Gilles Brassard invented an encryption technology that could theoretically never be ...

Reaching well beyond Georgia Tech faculty, he started sending “cold call” emails in 2023 to A.M. Turing Award winners and other computing luminaries. The emails shared Axel’s vision for a virtual ...

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