Have a good mind for computational problem-solving? Fancy netting a cool $1 million for your efforts? Then the University of St. Andrews and the Clay Mathematics Institute sure have the competition ...

Imagine you are in the 8 th grade, working on an argumentative essay regarding “censorship in the libraries.” After writing a first draft, you receive this marginal comment about one of your sentences ...

An insight into the way machines make meaning. A few years ago I used an algorithm to help me write a science fiction story. Adam Hammond, an English professor, and Julian Brooke, a computer scientist ...

A new app aims to help you write like Ernest Hemingway. Author Ernest Hemingway poses for a portrait while on a big game hunt in September 1952 in Kenya. Earl Theisen/Getty Images Feb. 14, 2014 -- The ...

You may have heard that algorithms will take over the world. But how are they operating right now? We take a look in our series on Algorithms at Work. Picture this: you have written an essay. You ...