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6 reasons interactive Python is a game-changer for me

Interactive Python modes are an easy way to learn new libraries. Scripting languages are easy to learn on their own because ...
The Conversation

What is an algorithm? How computers know what to do with data

Jory Denny is a member of two professional societies: the Association of Computing Machinery and IEEE. He is associated with Waymo LLC. The world of computing is full of buzzwords: AI, supercomputers, ...
MIT Technology Review

I used an algorithm to help me write a story. Here’s what I learned.

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 ...
NPR

Can An Algorithm Discover The Key To Laughter?

Some web-based companies are trying to use academic studies of humor to write an algorithm for what is funny, and use it to sell an app. Humor, however, is notoriously tough to study. Along with ...
Kaleido Scope

How a computer science professor is using AI in her classroom

Like more than a few faculty colleagues before her, computer scientist Amber Wagner, Ph.D., started out by creating an AI assignment that was designed to flop. Teaching a course on the C++ programming ...