Category - Computers

An accessible explanation of the technologies that enable such popular voice-interactive applications as Alexa, Siri, and Google Assistant.Have y...

Everything we need to know about metadata, the usually invisible infrastructure for information with which we interact every day. When “metadata”...

An introduction to computational thinking that traces a genealogy beginning centuries before the digital computer.A few decades into the digital ...

The idea of technological singularity, and what it would mean if ordinary human intelligence were enhanced or overtaken by artificial intelligenc...

A compact and accessible history of computing—from punch cards and calculators to UNIVAC and ENIAC, the personal computer, Silicon Valley, and th...

A concise overview of machine learning—computer programs that learn from data—the basis of such applications as voice recognition and driverless ...

An accessible guide to cybersecurity for the everyday user, covering cryptography and public key infrastructure, malware, blockchain, and other t...

A concise introduction to the emerging field of data science, explaining its evolution, relation to machine learning, current uses, data infrastr...

An accessible introduction to the artificial intelligence technology that enables computer vision, speech recognition, machine translation, and d...

A concise and accessible guide to techniques for detecting doctored and fake images in photographs and digital media.Stalin, Mao, Hitler, Mussoli...