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If a test project succeeds, dental students will trade 400 lbs. of paper for a DVD disk. Updated each semester, the disk would contain all the materials for 4 years worth of courses. The price would be about the same, about $3000 to $4000, as the textbooks, but students like the idea being able to carry a laptop, instead of a stack of heavy books. Having access to all the material through a computer also means it is easier to search across the whole curricula for specific information.

When computer scientists at Microsoft started to experiment with a new artificial intelligence system last year, they asked it to solve a puzzle that should have required an intuitive understanding [...]

Siri, Google Search, online marketing and your child's homework will never be the same. Then there's the misinformation problem. This month, Jeremy Howard, an artificial intelligence researcher, introduced an online [...]

New technology that blends language and images could serve graphic artists -- and speed disinformation campaigns. SAN FRANCISCO -- At OpenAI, one of the world's most ambitious artificial intelligence labs, [...]

SAMUEL PEPYS, the great English diarist, might have appreciated this invention. A small team of Microsoft researchers is devising software for an electronic diary that can keep track of a […]

ON the ever-shifting Internet, what is on a Web site today could easily be gone tomorrow. But a new publishing system developed by AT&T promises to add permanence to information […]

IF anyone should know how hard it is to read from a computer screen, it is Dr. James Sheedy. A clinical professor of optometry at the University of California at […]