The Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) on Wednesday announced that it has awarded this year's A.M. Turing prize, often referred to as the Nobel Prize of computing, to computer scientist and ...

Some computers are easy to spot. Artificial, human-built computers like those found in smartphones and laptops are abstract ...

In conventional computing, we can draw a clean line between software and hardware. In brains, there is no such separation of different scales. In the brain, everything influences everything else, from ...

Computation is playing an increasing role in all STEM fields, and the ability for students to use and understand various computational tools is vital to long term success. It is not a question of if ...

The familiar fight between “mind as software” and “mind as biology” may be a false choice. This work proposes biological computationalism: the idea that brains compute, but not in the abstract, symbol ...

Consider a patient with abdominal pain or fever of unknown origin. The presentation may not scream catastrophe. The vital ...

Rapid technological change almost always invites rapid financial innovation. As new forms of production emerge, markets rush to name them, package them, and – inevitably – securitize them. Familiar ...