Humans had to carry out all their machining processes by hand for centuries. Even precision tools had to be maneuvered very carefully, inch by inch, by people holding the devices personally. That all ...

The advent of digitised property in our information society has raised critical challenges for the protection of intellectual property rights. As John Perry Barlow put it over 20 years ago in The ...

We can use computers and other digital devices to do lots of different things. We can send messages, go shopping, watch a video or play a game. Many of the machines and devices we use every day have a ...

Computer hardware and software have evolved in such a way that they are vital components of diverse systems. Due to advances in data collection and analysis, along with ever increasing computational ...

The goal of the “busy beaver” game is to find the longest-running computer program. Its pursuit has surprising connections to some of the most profound questions and concepts in mathematics.

Handwriting is a skill that feels personal and unique to all of us. Everyone has a slightly different style — a weird quirk or a seemingly illegible scrawl — that's nearly impossible for a computer to ...